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The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
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Include books by the same authorThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rudolf Erich Raspe · 140 pages
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages
KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound
John Carter: Adventures on Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 664 pages
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard · 220 pages
King Solomon’s Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people’s excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of Africa. Haggard wrote the novel in a very short period, between six and sixteen months, on a bet with his brother to try to match Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. In the process he created a new literary ge
With Fire and Sword
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 745 pages
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
G.A. Henty · 278 pages
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Frederick Marryat · 349 pages
Captain Hornblower R.N.: Hornblower and the Atropos / The Happy Return / A Ship of the Line
C.S. Forester · 638 pages
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Emmuska Orczy · 242 pages
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 555 pages
Three great swordsmen, Porthos, Aramis, and Anthos, with their protege, D'Artagnan, match wits with the sinister Cardinal Richelieu who seeks to divide the royalty in his own quest for power.
Captain Blood Returns
Rafael Sabatini · 296 pages
This book explores the further adventures of Captain Peter Blood part time doctor, full time pirate
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson · 503 pages
Med en stor portion humor och en berättarglädje som knappast har något motstycke i den svenska litteraturen är Röde Orm en av våra få verkligt levande klassiker som har fängslat generationer av läsare. Orms äventyr börjar när han som yngling av en slump hamnar på ett vikingaskepp. Hans fortsatta öden berättas i dråpliga episoder om hans tid som galärslav och livvakt hos kalifens visir Almansur
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi · 235 pages
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
Ivanhoe
Walter Scott · 484 pages
The father of the historical novel, Sir Walter Scott invented a literary form that has remained popular for over one hundred and fifty years. Infusing his works with romance, action, and suspense, he brought long-gone eras back to life with splendor and spectacle.Set in England just after the Third Crusade, Ivanhoe is the tale of Wilfrid, a young Saxon knight, and his love for the royal princess R
The Reivers
William Faulkner · 305 pages
The adventures of a Mississippi innocent who, with two older friends, "borrows" his grandfather's automobile one day in 1905 and heads for Memphis.
The Walking Drum
Louis L'Amour · 468 pages
Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russi
Conan (Book 1)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter · 221 pages
The Sun Over Breda
Arturo Perez-Reverte · 275 pages
Diego Alatriste, a 17th-century mercenary and wily veteran of campaigns from Italy to Flanders, is part of the army of Spanish King Philip IVa defender of the Catholic faiththat's trying to suppress the Calvinist heretics of the Low Countries. Narrated is retrospect by igo Balboa, who at the time of the action was Alatriste's 14-year-old page, this installment focuses on the Spaniards' siege of th
Simplicissimus
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen · 400 pages
The Golden Ocean
Patrick O'Brian · 288 pages
Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall · 659 pages
This book is great for a middle school class. This book is based on the movie MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY!
Arundel
Kenneth Roberts
The story of a group of Maine irregulars during the Revolutionary War. It is the tale of their march to Quebec to fight the French and their Indian allies. A surprisingly sympathetic view of Benedict Arnold in his early days as a competent, though slightly eccentric leader. Adventure, some romantic interest and lots of history served up by a great American author.
The Barbary Pirates
William Dietrich · 336 pages