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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

Lost Endeavour (1917)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Robin Hood (1917)

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The legends of Robin Hood are recounted by Paul Creswick. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Paul Creswick
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Mysterious Island (1918)

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During the American Civil War five prisoners of war and a dog escape from Richmond in a balloon and are driven across the country by a fierce storm and wrecked on a desert island in the Pacific. They proceed to make a home for themselves with all the... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Adventures Of Richard Hannay (1919)

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Richard Hannay is an ordinary fellow caught up in extraordinary events in England and Scotland. This volume contains The Thirty-nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Last of the Mohicans (1919)

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This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales series, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Shasta of the Wolves (1919)

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Shasta of the Wolves is a feral child novel by Olaf Baker. It was originally published in 1919 by Dodd, Mead and Company with illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. It was reprinted a number of times up until 1959.... View More

Author(s): Olaf Baker
Illustrator(s): Charles Livingston Bull

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The Enchanted Forest (1920)

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Six new fairy tales. Read online here.

Author(s): William Bowen
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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From the Earth to the Moon … And a Trip Round It (1920)

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A projectile fired from a gun takes these adventurers to the moon and back. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr.

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A Little Boy Lost (1920)

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A small boy wanders off into the jungle and has many adventures. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): William Henry Hudson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Robinson Crusoe (1920)

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First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most rece... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Roy Blakeley’s Silver Fox Patrol (1920)

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Roy, Pee-wee and the rest of the gang find a treasure map in an old railroad car and are off on a treasure hunt. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Thomas Clarity
Howard L. Hastings

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Stories of Robin Hood and His Merry Men (1920)

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The legends of Robin Hood told by Henry Gilbert. This is an abridged edition of the 1912 publication with only eight color plates.

Author(s): Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Westward Ho! (1920)

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Amyas Leigh sails from England with Francis Drake and becomes a freebooter or pirate in the Carribean. He later returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada. The novel is blighted by it virulent anti-Catholicsm. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Gulliver’s Travels (1921)

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Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in various strange countries, including those of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians and Houyhnhnms. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (1921)

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A collection of Howard Pyle’s work dealing with pirates, both artistic and literary. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
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Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Kidnapped (1921)

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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): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Robinson Crusoe (1921)

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First published is 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most rece... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): Frederick Alfred Rhead
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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The Scottish Chiefs (1921)

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A historical novel about William Wallace and the Scots revolt against the English beginning in 1297. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Jane Porter
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Swiss Family Robinson (1921)

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A family is shipwrecked on a tropical island and proceed to make a new life for themselves. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Isabelle de Montolieu
Johann David Wyss
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Treasure Island (1921)

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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 archive.org.... View More

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

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