Adventure and adventurers
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- Adventure stories
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- Explorers
- Filibusters
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Seafaring life
- Shipwrecks
- Soldiers of fortune
- Women adventurers
- Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
- Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798
- Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635
- Columbus, Christopher
- Dewart, Gilbert, 1932-
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
- Fraser, Simon, 1776-1862
- Hawkwood, John, Sir, -1394
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955
- La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
- Nordenskiöld, A. E. (Adolf Erik), 1832-1901
- Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913
- Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
- Adventurers
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The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot, in the Name of John Taylor (1809), by Mary Ann Talbot, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)- Heart of Asia: True Tales of the Far East (c1951), by Roy Chapman Andrews (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys (c1922), by John Buchan (illustrated HTML at Roy Glashan's Library)
- The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune, by Stanley Portal Hyatt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A Weird Series of Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, From The Earliest Part of The Century To The Present Time, With Accounts of Providential Escapes and Heart-Rending Fatalities (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Venturesome Voyages of Captain John Voss, by John Claus Voss (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by Louis de Rougemont (Gutenberg text)
- Letters of Edward John Trelawny (London et al.: H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910), by Edward John Trelawny, ed. by H. Buxton Forman
- Jack Wright and His Electric Air Rocket: or, The Boy Exile of Siberia (Boys' star library #341 by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Heroine of the White Nile, or, What a Woman Did and Dared: A Sketch of the Remarkable Travels and Experiences of Miss Alexandrine Tinné (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1881), by William Wells (page images at ohiomemory.org)
- The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Ballad of the Lost Hare (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1882), by Margaret Sidney (page images at LOC)
- The Incurable Filibuster: Adventures of Colonel Dean Ivan Lamb (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1934), by Dean Ivan Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Wide World Magazine (partial serial archives)
- The Magic Walking-Stick (c1932), by John Buchan (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Afar in the Forest, by William Henry Giles Kingston
- Brown Wolf, and Other Jack London Stories, by Jack London, ed. by Franklin K. Mathiews (Gutenberg text)
- The Crimson Gardenia, and Other Tales of Adventure (New York and London: Harper and Bros, 1916), by Rex Beach
- Dutch Courage and Other Stories, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Gold Out of Celebes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by A. E. Dingle (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Impregnable City: A Romance (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Max Pemberton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A King in Khaki (illustrated; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1909), by Henry Kitchell Webster (page images at Google; US access only)
- The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Gordon Browne
- The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Arthur Stringer, illust. by Frank Snapp
- Popular Adventure Tales: Comprising The Young Voyageurs, or, The Boy Hunters in the North; The Forest Exiles, or, Adventures Amid the Wilds of the Amazon; The Bush-Boys, or, Adventures in the Wilds of South Africa (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.; Glasgow: T. D. Morison, n.d.), by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea: Being Remarkable Historical Facts, Gathered From Authentic Sources, ed. by James O. Brayman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1876), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Yule Logs (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), ed. by G. A. Henty
- Yule-Tide Yarns (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), ed. by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
- The Black Bar, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)
- The Crystal Stopper, by Maurice Leblanc (Gutenberg text)
- Frank Merriwell's Bravery (c1903), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Gorilla Hunters, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- Patrañas: or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional (London: Griffith and Farran, 1870), by Rachel Harriette Busk, illust. by Edward Henry Corbould
- The Pirate of the Mediterranean, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels (Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne et al., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber, contrib. by Jonathan Swift, Ludvig Holberg, Robert Paltock, Daniel Defoe, and Edward Gibbon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rover's Secret, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by William Christian Symons
- Stories From Famous Ballads, for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Grace Greenwood, illust. by Hammatt Billings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Sturdy and Strong: or, How George Andrews Made His Way (New York: Federal Book Co., n.d.), by G. A. Henty
- The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
- Joe's Luck: or, Always Wide Awake, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
- Northern Diamonds (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Frank Lillie Pollock, illust. by H. C. Edwards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Phantasmion (London: W. Pickering, 1837), by Sara Coleridge (multiple formats at Google)
- Phantasmion: A Fairy Tale (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Sara Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Phantasmion: Prince of Palmland (2 volumes; New York: S. Colman, 1839), by Sara Coleridge, ed. by Grenville Mellen
- A Pirate of the Caribbees, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Charles J. De Lacy
- The Wizard of the Sea: or, A Trip Under the Ocean, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Clearing Weather (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928), by Cornelia Meigs, illust. by Frank Dobias (page images at HathiTrust)
- The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1927), by John Ruskin, illust. by Elizabeth M. Fisher (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- Eileen's Journey: History in Fairyland (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Ernest Arthur Jelf, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)
- The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin
- The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille) (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1916), by Hector Malot, trans. by Florence Crewe-Jones, illust. by Johnny Gruelle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Nobody's Girl (En Famille) (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1922), by Hector Malot, trans. by Florence Crewe-Jones, illust. by Thelma Gooch
- On the Banks of the Amazon, by William Henry Giles Kingston
- The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story (New York: Harper, c1879), by Helen Ashe Hays (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Waldo and the Desert Island Adventure, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
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