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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

The Sampo (1912)

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A collection of traditional tales from the Finnish Kalevala. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): James Baldwin
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Sky Island (1912)

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Trot and Cap’n Bill meet Button Bright and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s daughter, on their trip to Sky Island. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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The Amateur Gentleman (1913)

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Barnabas Barty comes into the possession of a vast fortune and determines to use it to become a gentleman. He must first knock his father down, although as respectfully as may be. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Herman Pfeifer

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Camping on the Great Lakes (1913)

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A story of boys boating and camping on the Great Lakes. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Raymond S. Spears
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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Ivanhoe (1913)

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A tale of the Saxons and the Normans in the days of Richard the Lion Heart. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Kidnapped (1913)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Strange Story Book (1913)

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A collection or stories, some of them true, mostly fictitious. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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Tad Sheldon, Boy Scout (1913)

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Early boy scout adventures along Yaquina Bay in Oregon where the troop patrols for mariners in distress.

Author(s): John Fleming Wilson
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1913)

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The adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf - and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s): Mary Hamilton Frye

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The Boy Emigrants (1914)

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Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s): Harvey Thomas Dunn

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Feats on the Fjord (1914)

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An adventure story set in Norway. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Harriet Martineau
Illustrator(s): W. Cubitt Cooke
Arthur Rackham

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The Flying Inn (1914)

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As the sign of the crescent ascends over England, the last Inn takes to the road. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): None

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Beltane the Smith (1915)

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Growing up isolated among hermits, young Beltane has a lot to learn about the world. His education begins when a stranger comes to the woods offering sword and horse lessons to the young man. Still, will he be ready when Lady Helen of Mortain rides t... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Arthur E. Becher

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Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1915)

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Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): George Wharton Edwards

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Manual of the Woodcraft Indians The Fourteenth Birch Bark Roll (1915)

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This is a handbook for starting and running an Indian tribe. This was one of the precursors of the Scouting movement, and includes ‘merit badges.’ First published in 1902, this is the fourteenth edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Smuggler's Island (1915)

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Marian Hadley is cast away on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez along with her four younger siblings, one only a baby, and successfully keeps them alive for seven years until they are finally rescued. This is the first edition which does not have ... View More

Author(s): Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s): Wallace Goldsmith

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Tom Slade Boy Scout (1915)

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Tom is a sixteen-year-old street tough, left to fend for himself by his worthless father, Bill Slade, after wealthy landowner John Temple evicts them. Tom scorns the Boy Scout movement, as does Temple and his effeminate son Wilfred. Because of his in... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Photographs

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Treasure Island (1915)

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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. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead

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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1916)

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An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The King of Ireland’s Son (1916)

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The King of Ireland's Son sets out to find the Enchanter of the Black Back-Lands and meets the Enchanter's daughter, Fedelma.

Author(s): Pádraic Colum
Illustrator(s): Willy Pogány

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