Adventure Books

The Lonely Island - The Refuge of the Mutineers

The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers is a nautical fiction story written for children by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. ..

Snake and Sword - A Novel

Snake and Sword: A Novel is a fiction work of Percival Christopher Wren, an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involvin..

A Tale of Three Lions

H. Rider Haggard

Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quatermain, the famous hero of “King Solomons Mines”. This time, tho..

The Talisman

Walter Scott

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The plot is not related to that of Walter Scott's 1825 novel of the same name, although there is one oblique ref..

Peter Ruff and the Double Four

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Peter Ruff and the Double Four is mystery novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers...

The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers

James Fenimore Cooper

The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is a sea story written by James Fenimore Cooper,  an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of..

La piraterie dans l'antiquité

Jules M. Sestier

La piraterie dans l'antiquité is pirate fiction story written by Jules M. Sestier, a French novelist...

Tales of Unrest

Joseph Conrad

Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short adventure stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Of the five stories in this volume, “The Lagoon,” the last in order, is the earlie..