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Soldiers of fortune

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• Adventure and adventurers
• Mercenary troops

• Filibusters

• Soldiers of fortune -- Fiction
• Soldiers of fortune -- France
• Soldiers of fortune -- Great Britain
• Condottieri

• Fortune, Soldiers of

• Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Real Soldiers of Fortune (illustrated; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Richard Harding Davis (PDF at djm.cc)

• Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Randall Parrish, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marching Sands (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1920), by Harold Lamb
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• Valperga, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (HTML at Bibliomania)

• Maurice Tiernay, Soldier of Fortune (London: Downey and Co., 1898), by Charles Lever, illust. by A. D. McCormick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1911), by Marion Polk Angellotti (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Heart of Asia: True Tales of the Far East (c1951), by Roy Chapman Andrews (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Gold Out of Celebes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by A. E. Dingle (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• 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 King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text

• 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)

• Afar in the Forest, by William Henry Giles Kingston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • PDF and other formats at archive.org
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Dutch Courage and Other Stories, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Arthur Stringer, illust. by Frank Snapp
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• A Pirate of the Caribbees, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Charles J. De Lacy
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Wizard of the Sea: or, A Trip Under the Ocean, by Roy Rockwood (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
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.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 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)
• On the Banks of the Amazon, by William Henry Giles Kingston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • PDF and other formats at archive.org
• 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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