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• A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys (c1922), by John Buchan (illustrated HTML at Roy Glashan's Library)
• You can escape (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Edward H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia della mia fuga dalle prigioni della republica di Venezia dette "li Piombi," (Alfieri e Lacroix, 1911), by Giacomo Casanova and Salvatore Di Giacomo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beyond courage. (D. McKay Co., 1955), by Clay Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of escapes; studies of some historie flights with a personal commentary (J. Murray, 1920), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1921), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of escapes : studies of some historic flights with a personal commentary (J. Murray, 1920), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casanovas Gefangenschaft und Flucht aus den Bleikammern (Opal-Verlag, 1922), by Giacomo Casanova and Friedrich Wencker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Casanova's Gefangenschaft und Flucht aus den Bleikammern zu Venedig (Verlag von Philipp Reclam, jun., 1890), by Giacomo Casanova and Otto Randolf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1907), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chetyre pobega. (Gos., izd-vo; [etc.], 1926), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lunatic at large : a novel (Buckles, 1905), by J. Storer Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of peril and suffering. (T. Tegg, 1840), by R. A. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of escapes; studies of some historic flights with a personal commentary (Houghton Mifflin co., 1917), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sensational prison escapes from the Oregon State Penitentiary ... ([Salem, Or., 1922), by Prisoner no. 6435 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les évasions célèbres (L. Hachette et cie, 1869), by Frédéric Bernard and Émile Antoine Bayard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful escapes (Scribner, Armstrong, 1875), by Frédéric Bernard and Richard Whiteing (page images at HathiTrust)
• How we escaped from Pretoria (W. Blackwood, 1901), by James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meine Flucht aus den Bleikammern Venedigs (Literarisches Institut, 1907), by Giacomo Casanova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Na voli︠u︡! opisanie vydai︠u︡shchikhsi︠a︡ pobegov russkikh revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionerov iz ti︠u︡rem i ssylʹnykh mest. (Sei︠a︡telʹ, 1926), by A. E. Zarin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The road to En-dor : being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922), by E. H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bijdrage tot de leer der zelfbevrijding ... (P. Somerwil, 1871), by Pieter Gratama (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beglet︠s︡y, istoricheskie rasskazy. (A. Kotomin, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My escape in 1837 (s.n., 1869), by Thomas Storrow Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die befreiung von gefangenen nach dem deutschen reichs-strafgesetz und dem schweiz. Vorentwurf (juni 1903) ... (Buchdr. V. Schmid & co., 1908), by Alois Brügger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The log of a Jack Tar : or, the Life of James Choyce, master mariner, now first published : with O'Brien's captivity in France (T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), by James Choyce, Verney Lovett Cameron, and Donat Henchy O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des weltberühmten Liebeskünstlers Giacomo Casanova, schmachvolle Gefangenschaft und tollkühne Flucht aus den Bleikammern Venedigs (Verlag Neues Leben Wilhelm Borngräber, 1911), by Giacomo Casanova and Christian Kraus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal of the escape and re-capture of Samuel P. Dill, late Capt. and Brevet Major 173d Regt., New York Vol. (J.H. Broach & Bro., printers, 1867), by Samuel P. Dill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escapes (London, T. Nelson, 1925), by John Buchan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wonderful Escapes, by Frédéric Bernard, ed. by Richard Whiteing (Gutenberg ebook)

• Report to the Legislature on Assembly Concurrent Resolution 85 (The Dept., 1983), by California Department of Corrections (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Great plot discovered, or, The notorious and wicked design upon the river of Thames put in execution on Monday last with a hu-and-cry after the condemned prisoners that made their escape upon their removing from Newgate to be transported for Jamaica, and the manner how they made their escape and got ashore in Essex, the killing of the steer-man, the pursuing of them by souldiers, and the names and number of those since re-taken which are now to be executed upon several gibbets : likewise the apprehending of the wicked villains ill-affected to His Gracious Majesty and His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York. (London : Printed for G. Horton, 1661) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The lunatic at large : a novel (Buckles, 1905), by J. Storer Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uhkea markiisi (in Finnish), by Rafael Sabatini, trans. by Alpo Kupiainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Prison of the Stars, by Stanley Mullen, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Exit From Asteroid 60, by D. L. James, illust. by Ed Smalle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Manners and Customs of the Thrid, by Murray Leinster, illust. by Norman Nodel (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Men of Boru, by Jack A. Nelson, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Man Who Hated Mars, by Randall Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Faithfully Yours, by Lou Tabakow (Gutenberg ebook)

• Report of the Select Committee on the Penitentiary : submitted to the House of Representatives, January 15, 1839. (William Walters, Public Printer, 1839), by Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee on the Penitentiary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
• Theras and His Town (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Caroline Dale Snedeker, illust. by Mary Whitson Haring (page images at HathiTrust)
• White tiger (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888), by Louis Boussenard, D. Dumont, and Jules Descartes Férat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ezra Jordan's escape from the massacre at Fort Loyall (Estes and Lauriat, 1895), by James Otis, Geo. C. Scott & Sons, C.H. Simonds & Co, Mass.) Colonial Press (Boston, and Estes & Lauriat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escape to danger (Wilcox & Follett Co., 1949), by Edward Buell Hungerford and Robert Frankenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of a country boy at a country fair (Saalfield Publishing Company, 1900), by James Otis, Werner Company, and Saalfield Pub. Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tamba, the tame tiger : his many adventures (Barse & Hopkins Pub., 1919), by Richard Barnum, Walter S. Rogers, and Barse & Hopkins Publishers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from a middy's log, by Arthur Lee Knight (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ihmissyöjäin vankina: Seikkailuja Afrikan aarniometsissä (in Finnish), by Verney Lovett Cameron, trans. by Väinö Nyman (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Savage Africa: Or, The adventures of Frank Baldwin from the Gold Coast to Zanzibar., by Verney Lovett Cameron, illust. by Émile Antoine Bayard (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes: Being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia, where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands, by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Galloping Ghost: A Mystery Story for Boys, by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Little Gingerbread Man, by George Haven Putnam, illust. by Robert Gaston Herbert (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse, by Arthur Scott Bailey, illust. by Eleanore Fagan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old farm fairies (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895), by Henry C. McCook (page images at Florida)
• St. Bartholomew's Eve (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1894), by G. A. Henty (page images at Florida)
• The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (New York: Century Co., 1895), by Howard Pyle, illust. by Howard Pyle (page images at Florida)
• A Jacobite exile (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1894), by G. A. Henty and Paul Hardy (page images at Florida)
• A Jacobite exile (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Paul Hardy (page images at Florida)
• St. Bartholomew's Eve (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by G. A. Henty and Walter Paget (page images at Florida)
• Father Aldur (London: Seeley & Co., 1887), by Agnes Giberne (page images at Florida)
• Father Aldur (New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1887), by Agnes Giberne (page images at Florida)
• Ezra Jordan's escape from the massacre at Fort Loyall (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, n.d.), by James Otis (page images at Florida)
• Condemned as a nihilist (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1893), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Walter Paget (page images at Florida)
• The cruise of the rover caravan (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1896), by Gordon Stables (page images at Florida)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (New York: W. L. Allison Co., 1895), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at Florida)
• A traitor's escape (New York: A.L. Burt, Publisher, 1898), by James Otis, illust. by George G White (page images at Florida)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (New York: A.L. Burt, Publisher, 1898), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at Florida)

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