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Historical Fiction - Age of Exploration Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Age of Exploration genre:
Evangeline (1897)
Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith
Free to Serve, A Tale of Colonial New York (1897)
An historical romance of New York in colonial times. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Emma Rayner
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1900)
A satirical look at the early history of the metropolis. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Rip Van Winkle (1905)
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Last of the Mohicans (1910)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Last of the Mohicans (1910)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Last of the Mohicans (1919)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1920)
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (1921)
A collection of Howard Pyle’s work dealing with pirates, both artistic and literary. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1922)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
The Deerslayer (1925)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Last of the Mohicans (1926)
This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians (1928)
Three Chippewa children captured by the Sioux escape to warn their tribe of an imminent raid by their enemy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Drums (1928)
This is the story of Johnny Fraser and his part in the Revolutionary War in the South.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Boyd
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1928)
A comic history of New York under the Dutch.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Salute to Adventurers (1930)
Adventures of a Scotch lad in Virginia in the early days of colonization.
The cover image shown above is from the 1915 edition.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Melissa Ann (1931)
Heedless Melissa Ann is always getting in to trouble with her grandmother and her four aunts.
Author(s):
Ethel Parton
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters (1931)
Author(s):
Rupert Sargent Holland
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
The Charming Sally (1932)
An English theatrical troupe visits the American colonies. Find at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Haven’s End (1933)
This is the story of a New England town, a family - the Swales - and their home.
Author(s):
John P. Marquand
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson