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Adventure Genre
Genre description for the 'Adventure' Genre. Full text description would go here to introduce the genre before showing a complete list of all the books in that genre.
Books in the Adventure genre:
Unforgettable Journeys (1965)
A selection of stories and true accounts of travels.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Whaler ’Round the Horn (1965)
Rodney Glenn hitches a ride to New Bedford to sign on with a whalerman and sets out for the south seas and a rendezvous with a certain white whale.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Whisper of Glocken (1965)
The Watercress River has been dammed. Five intrepid Minnipins set out to find the cause and save the people of the Land Between the Mountains.
Author(s):
Carol Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Imero Gobbato
Admiral Hornblower (1966)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Charles Gorham
Asterix in Britain (1966)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
The Black Island (1966)
Bows Against the Barons (1966)
When he unthinkingly kills one of the King's deer, a peasant boy flees home and goes into Sherwood Forest where he joins Robin Hood and his band.
Author(s):
Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Bruin the Brown Bear (1966)
Twin bear cubs learn the business of being a bear from their mother and older brother.
Author(s):
Lily Duplaix
Lida
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
Captain Horatio Hornblower: a condensation of Beat to Quarters (1966)
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
Richard Evelyn Byrd
C. S. Forester
Mary O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
James E. Bama
February’s Road (1966)
A new road is planned to run through the Callendar farm, but February is determined to stop it.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Great Dane Thor (1966)
Lars learns what it means to be responsible, and what it means to have a dog as a pet.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Joseph Cellini
Jack of Dover (1966)
Author(s):
Richard Garnett
Illustrator(s):
Graham Oakley
Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (1966)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
ODTAA (1966)
Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see if what he can make of himself.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Peter Kettle
Professor Diggins’ Dragons (1966)
Five children embarked on a seaside vacation are not expecting to find dragons.
Author(s):
Felice Holman
Nadine Elisabeth Valen
Illustrator(s):
Ib Ohlsson
The Tolkien Reader (1966)
This collection includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Watcher on the Heights (1966)
Steve and Sim are up against a man bent on murder in this adventure on the river.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
George Wilson
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1966)
Author(s):
Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s):
Hans Baumhauer
Adventure Tales (1967)
This is an anthology of previously published books about pirates, prospectors, cowboys and Indians and rhymes.
Author(s):
Jenny Dennis
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Doctor Dolittle Boxed Set (1967)
Includes Doctor Dolittle’s Circus, Zoo, Caravan, Garden, In the Moon, Return.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting