Adventure Books

South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition

Ernest Shackleton

South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition is a travel adventure written by Ernest Shackleton, a British polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one o..

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash

John Henry Goldfrap

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic is a juvenile fiction novel written by John Henry Goldfrap, a North American journalist and author of boys' books, participati..

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott...

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within ..

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy...

The World of Waters

Mrs. David Osborne

The World of Waters (A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea) is a juvenile travel fiction written by Mrs. David Osborne. It is not my purpose to detain you with a long preface, because I am aw..

The Gadfly

E. L. Voynich

The Gadfly is a novel by Irish writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tu..

Alcatraz

Max Brand

The story is about an "outlaw" horse and it's relationship with man. He captures the essence of that 'never really tame' element that is a part of such magnificent animals as well as that strange conn..