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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:
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (1970)
This biography of the Admiral fills in gaps in the saga.
Author(s):
C. Northcote Parkinson
Illustrator(s):
G. Chambers
Lorna Doone (1970)
Author(s):
R. D. Blackmore
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Miss Bianca in the Orient (1970)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Mystery at Redstone Farm (1970)
Eileen discovers that danger threatens the Kennedys and their farm, but no one takes her seriously.
Author(s):
Alice Lunt
Illustrator(s):
Jim Lester
The Princess and the Goblin (1970)
The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued from the goblins by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Arthur Hughes
The Sea Islanders (1970)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Three Straw Men (1970)
Something is not quite right at Folsom’s Fashion Center and Steve and Pete are determined to get to the bottom of it.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Bob Brown
Treasure Island (1970)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Wicked Kings of Bloon (1970)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Asterix in Spain (1971)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
The Black Stallion and the Girl (1971)
Alex Ramsay hires a young woman as a trainer - but can she ride the Black in a race?
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
Cigars of the Pharaoh (1971)
The Circus Detectives (1971)
While working on their new clown act, two young members of a traveling circus discover the reason for the circus’ recent bad luck.
Author(s):
Harriette Sheffer Abels
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Crabapple Night (1971)
Did Mrs. Fink really poison their dog?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jan Wahl
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Gold from Crete (1971)
A collection of ten short stories set during World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Graham Humphreys
Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (1971)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Moominvalley in November (1971)
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
The Players and the Rebels (1971)
This is the second part of Antonia Forest’s historical romance of Shakespeare’s time.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
John Holder
Richard Scarry’s Best Stories Ever (1971)
An anthology of Richard Scarry’s books for Golden Press.
Author(s):
Vivienne Benstead
Kathryn Jackson
Patricia Scarry
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry’s Great Big Air Book (1971)
From flying a kite to flying to the moon, we live in an ocean of air.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry