Adventure Books

Life and Travels of Mungo Park

Mungo Park

Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of..

The House of a Thousand Candles

Meredith Nicholson

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa f..

The Middy and the Moors - An Algerine Story

R. M. Ballantyne

Taking his way to the pebbly shore, young Foster hired a small boat, or punt, from a man who knew him well, declined the owner’s services, pushed off, seized the oars, and rowed swiftly out to sea. It..

The Missing Ship - The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley

William Giles Kingston

The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley is a sea story written by an English writer of boys' adventure novels. Excerpts from the book:“No sign of a breeze yet, Owen?” asked Captain Tracy,..

Young America Afloat - A Story of Travel and Adventure

Oliver Optic

Outward Bound is the first volume of "A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands," and contains the voyage of the Academy Ship "Young America" across the Atlantic. The origin and progress of t..

The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale

Joseph Conrad

Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleanic Wars. Over decades, on every occa..

The Kidnapped President

Guy Newell Boothby

The Kidnapped President is an adventure novel written by Guy Newell Boothby,  prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of th..

Affair in Araby

Talbot Mundy

Affair in Araby is a highly exciting adventure story featuring James Schuyler Grim, better known as Jimgrim. Jimgrim is an American secret service agent employed by the British and stationed in Jerusa..