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• The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Pied Piper (c1942), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Capitaines Courageux: Une Histoire du Banc de Terre-Neuve (French translation of "Captains Courageous"; Paris: Hachette, 1903), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker, illust. by Auguste-François-Marie Gorguet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Meren Urhoja: Kertomus Suurilta Matalikoilta (Finnish translation of "Captains Courageous"; Porvoo: WSOY, 1915), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Väinö Jaakkola (Gutenberg text)
• The rescue; a romance of the shallows (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romance : a novel (Doubleday Page, 1903), by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Tuscarora's vow : or, Along the Mohawk (A. Westbrook, 1908), by Sandy G. V. Griswold and Ohio) Arthur Westbrook Co. (Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Captains courageous" (Doubleday, Doran, 1897), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The further adventures of Zorro, by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cato, the creeper; or, The demon of Dead-Man's Forest, by Frederick H. Dewey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Trouble Near the Sun, by Alan J. Ramm, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Death-Dealer, the Shawnee Scourge; or The Wizard of the Cliffs, by Arthur L. Meserve (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ricardo's Virus, by William Tenn, illust. by Herman B. Vestal (Gutenberg ebook)
• Patch, by William Shedenhelm, illust. by Al McWilliams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Queen of the Blue World, by Basil Wells, illust. by Leo Morey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Thing of Venus, by Wilbur S. Peacock, illust. by Leo Morey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sargasso of the Stars, by Frederic Arnold Kummer, illust. by Don Lynch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sword of Gideon, by John Bloundelle-Burton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Midnight Jack, or The road-agent, by T. C. Harbaugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Robber Baron of Bedford Castle, by A. J. Foster and Edith E. Cuthell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Strandingshistorier: Skildringer fra jydske Vestkyst og Skagen (in Danish), by L. Mylius Erichsen (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Lobster catchers; a story of the coast of Maine. (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1900), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tale of the Vaudois : designed for young persons (Darton and Clark, 1842), by Mrs. Webb-Peploe, T. N. Webb, and Darton & Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Rooney or the last of the crew (Nisbet, 1886), by R.M. Ballantyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Stories of the Lifeboat, by Frank Mundell (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (New York: F. Warne and Co., 1909), by Beatrix Potter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by Kirk Munroe, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• The Land of Fire, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Gordon Browne
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mate of the Lily, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On Board the Esmeralda, by John C. Hutcheson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Settlers: A Tale of Virginia, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Two Boys and a Fortune, by Matthew White (Gutenberg text)
• On the Florida reefs (A.L. Burt, 1888), by James Otis, Charles Kent, and A. L. Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robinson Crusoe, Jr. : a story for little folks (Lee and Shepard, 1866), by Oliver Optic, Daniel Defoe, and John Andrew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adrift in the wilds (A. L. Burt, 1887), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage to Norway. (J. Harris, 1836), by Agnes Strickland, Samuel Bentley, and J. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• S.O.S. radio patrol. (Dodd, Mead, 1942), by William Heyliger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robinson Crusoe, jr : a story for little folks (Lee and Shepard, 1863), by Oliver Optic (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cliff-climbers; or, The lone home in the Himalayas. A sequel to "The plant-hunters." (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Mayne Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lobster catchers; a story of the coast of Maine. (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1900), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chuck Purdy : the story of a New York boy (D. Lothrop, 1891), by William Osborn Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crystal hunters : a boy's adventures in the higher Alps (D. Appleton, 1891), by George Manville Fenn, Frederic William Burton, Frederic W. Burton, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Kidd's gold : the true story of an adventurous sailor boy (A.L. Burt, 1888), by James Franklin Fitts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Gilbert's daughters : a story for girls (Porter & Coates, 1881), by Margaret Harriet Mathews, Rea, and Porter & Coates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the Great Bear (International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901), by Kirk Munroe, Howard Giles, North River Bindery, and International Association of Newspapers and Authors (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Copper Princess; a story of Lake Superior mines (Harper & brothers, 1898), by Kirk Munroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flag of distress : a tale of the South Sea (International Book Company, 1889), by Mayne Reid and Richard Henry Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two boys and a fortune (World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1907), by Matthew White and World Syndicate Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our new mistress. (National Society's Depository ;, 1888), by Charlotte M. Yonge, Charles Joseph Staniland, Thomas Whittaker, Spottiswoode & Co, and National Society's Depository (page images at HathiTrust)
• ʻCaptains courageous' : a story of the Grand Banks (Macmilllan and Co. ;, 1897), by Rudyard Kipling, I. W. Taber, I W Taber, R. & R. Clark (Firm), and Macmillan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Greek waters : a story of the Grecian war of independence (1821-1827) (Blackie & Son, 1893), by G. A. Henty, W. S. Stacey, and Blackie & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• New El Dorado. (W.A. Evans & Bro., 1882), by George Russell Jackson and W.A. Evans & Bro (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tale of the Vaudois : designed for young persons (Darton and Clark, 1842), by Mrs. Webb-Peploe, T. N. Webb, and Darton & Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Rooney or the last of the crew (Nisbet, 1886), by R.M. Ballantyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Racer boys on the prairies (Cupples & Leon Company, 1913), by Clarence Young and Cupples & Leon Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dorothy Dale to the rescue, by Margaret Penrose, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Launch the lifeboat!, by O. F. Walton, illust. by H. J. Rhodes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bomba the jungle boy at the giant cataract : Or, Chief Nascanora and his captives, by Roy Rockwood, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pat the Lighthouse Boy, by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale, by Julian Hawthorne, illust. by George Hood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bashful Fifteen, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg ebook)
• Air Monster, by Edwin Green (Gutenberg ebook)
• George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boys of Oakdale Academy, by Morgan Scott, illust. by Martin Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boy Scouts of the Life Saving Crew, by Robert Shaler (Gutenberg ebook)
• On Adventure Island, by Bess Moyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gypsies of the Air, by Bess Moyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations, by G. A. Henty, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg ebook)
• Alive in the Jungle: A Story for the Young, by Eleanor Stredder (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, by F. R. Goulding, contrib. by Joel Chandler Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wreck of the Red Bird: A Story of the Carolina Coast, by George Cary Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Billie Bradley and Her Classmates; Or, The Secret of the Locked Tower, by Janet D. Wheeler (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge; Or, Nora's Real Vacation, by Lilian Garis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wild Adventures round the Pole: Or, The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon", by Gordon Stables (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure, by Gordon Stables (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lost Mountain: A Tale of Sonora, by Mayne Reid, illust. by Edouard Riou (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boys of the Wireless; Or, A Stirring Rescue from the Deep, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg ebook)
• The White Man's Foot, by Grant Allen, illust. by Joseph Finnemore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Mustang, by William O. Stoddard (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boy Pilot of the Lakes; Or, Nat Morton's Perils, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest, by Margaret Vandercook (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cast Away in the Cold: An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner, by I. I. Hayes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Crusoes of the Frozen North, by Gordon Stables (Gutenberg ebook)
• The six swans (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1973), by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Alfred William Hunt, Adrie Hospes, McGraw-Hill Book Company, and Dr. Robert L. Egolf Collection (page images at Florida)
• The mysterious island (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1876), by Jules Verne, Perat, William Henry Giles Kingston, and Armstrong Scribner (page images at Florida)
• The English at the North Pole / by Jules Verne (London, New York ;: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876), by Jules Verne, Louis-Philippe Dumont, Juliet, George Routledge and Sons, Charles Dickens and Evans, and Crystal Palace Press (page images at Florida)
• The history of the little old woman who lived in a shoe (Boston: Shepard, Clark, and Brown, 1856), by Clark and Brown Shepard (page images at Florida)
• The Narratives of an old traveller (Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1854), by Ph. H Knelb, trans. by Lady (page images at Florida)
• Little Rosy's voyage round the world undertaken in company with her cousins Paul and Toto (London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1869), by P.-J. Stahl, illust. by Lorenz Frølich and Charles Gillot (page images at Florida)
• The mysterious island (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1895), by Jules Verne, William Henry Giles Kingston, Jules Descartes Férat, Charles Barbant, Marston & Company Sampson Low, and Gilbert & Rivington (page images at Florida)
• My first voyage to southern seas (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860), by William Henry Giles Kingston and Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at Florida)
• Freddy and his Bible text, or, The little runaway (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872) (page images at Florida)
• Ralph Somerville, or, A midshipman's adventures in the Pacific Ocean (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876), by Charles H Eden, Marcus Ward & Co, and Royal Ulster Works (page images at Florida)
• Winter in Spitzbergen (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1852), by Johann Andreas Christoph Hildebrandt, trans. by E. Goodrich Smith, illust. by John D Felter (page images at Florida)
• Robinson Crusoe (Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859), by Daniel Defoe (page images at Florida)
• The Little savage (London, New York: George Routledge and Sons, c1870), by Frederick Marryat and T. J Allman, illust. by John Gilbert and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• Robinson Crusoe (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1948), by Daniel Defoe (page images at Florida)
• Sylvia Brooke (London et al.: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by M. Harriet M Capes (page images at Florida)
• Little Zee (Chicago: Henry A. Sumner and Company, 1881), by Julia Daniels Moseley (page images at Florida)
• Mona Park (London: Wertheimer, Lea and Co., 1876), by Edith and Lea and Co Wertheimer (page images at Florida)
• The home amid the snow, or, Warm hearts in cold regions (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, n.d.), by Charles Ede (page images at Florida)
• Proved in peril, or, The shield of faith (Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, 1879), by A. L. O. E., illust. by Alfred W. Cooper (page images at Florida)
• Nutcracker and Mouse King (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by E. T. A. Hoffmann, trans. by A. R. Hope Moncrieff, illust. by Bertall (page images at Florida)
• An ocean knight, or, The corsairs and their conquerors (London ; New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891), by Fortuné Du Boisgobey and Dalziel Brothers, illust. by Adrien-Emmanuel Marie (page images at Florida)
• Straight on (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891), by Philippe Saint Hilaire, illust. by Henri Théophile Hildibrand and Édouard Zier (page images at Florida)
• The African trader, or, The adventures of Harry Bayford (London, Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, n.d.), by William Henry Giles Kingston (page images at Florida)
• St. Bartholomew's Eve (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1894), by G. A. Henty (page images at Florida)
• The Red Mountain of Alaska (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895?), by Willis Boyd Allen (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)
• On the Irrawaddy (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896), by G. A. Henty and Trow Directory, illust. by William Heysham Overend and Swantype (page images at Florida)
• On a coral reef (New York, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883), by Arthur Locker (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of Julio Arnouf (London: Darton & Hodge, 1867), by Darton & Hodge and William Clowes and Sons (page images at Florida)
• Hid in a cave, and, The selfish little girl (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1859), by Petter & Galpin Cassell (page images at Florida)
• Willie's disobedience, or, The cottage by the cliff (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1887), by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• The African trader, or, The adventures of Harry Bayford (London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1888), by William Henry Giles Kingston (page images at Florida)
• Robert Jackson's rescue (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, n.d.) (page images at Florida)
• The rescue (London: Religious Tract Society, n.d.) (page images at Florida)
• Harry the sailor boy and his uncle Gilbert (London: Religious Tract Society, 1870) (page images at Florida)
• The fortunes of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" (London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, n.d.), by William Henry Giles Kingston (page images at Florida)
• Honor Bright, or, The four-Leaved Shamrock (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1891), by Author of "Honor Bright" and Sue Chestnutwood Perkins (page images at Florida)
• Under the snow (London: Religious Tract Society, 1894) (page images at Florida)
• The fur traders of the West, or, Adventures among the redskins (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d.), by Ernest R Suffling (page images at Florida)
• The flamingo feather (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1898), by Kirk Munroe, illust. by Thure de Thulstrup (page images at Florida)
• The Copper Princess (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.), by Kirk Munroe, illust. by W. A. Rogers (page images at Florida)
• Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), by Samuel Johnson (page images at Florida)

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