Books tagged with Adventure
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A five-week journey across the African continent in a specially designed hydrogen balloon called the Victoria, which can be controlled by adjusting ballast and heat.
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In Search of the Castaways Or The Children of Captain Grant
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
The story begins in Scotland, where Lord Glenarvan of the yacht Duncan finds a bottle washed ashore, containing a partly damaged message in three languages.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A wealthy English gentleman living in London, makes a bold wager at the Reform Club: he bets £20,000 that he can travel around the world in just 80 days, a feat thought impossible in 1872.
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Mardi and a voyage thither- Volume 2
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
The unnamed narrator and his companion are separated when she mysteriously disappears. The search for her becomes the central quest, leading the narrator and his allies through the diverse archipelago of Mardi.
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Mardi and a voyage thither- Volume 1
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A sailor aboard a whaling ship who is dissatisfied with life on board, and escapes in a canoe with a loyal and simple-minded sailor.
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Toilers of the Sea
by Victor Hugo
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A solitary fisherman known as an outsider by the local villagers who falls in love with Déruchette, the beautiful niece of a local shipowner.
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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
The narrator escapes from the Typee Valley and joins a whaling ship sailing through the South Seas.
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Typee
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
The book is based on the author's real-life experiences in the South Pacific. It blends fact and fiction, recounting his time living among the Typee people.
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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A young American sailor who abandons his whaling ship, the Dolly, along with a shipmate named Toby, while docked in the Marquesas Islands.
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White Jacket Or The World on a Man-of-War
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
A semi-autobiographical novel that explores life aboard a U.S. Navy warship based on Melville’s own experiences. It serves as a critique of naval discipline, corporal punishment, and the rigidity of military life.
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Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
An English surgeon who sets out on a series of sea voyages and encounters strange and fantastical lands.
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
An aging man from La Mancha becomes obsessed with books about knights and chivalry. Believing these tales to be true, he renames himself Don Quixote and sets out to revive knighthood and defend the helpless.
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Moby-Dick or The Whale
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
The novel is narrated by a sailor named Ishmael, who signs up for a whaling voyage aboard the ship Pequod.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Categories: Fiction » Adventure
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876, about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River.
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The Adventures of Calvin Michael Johnson
by Rycliff
Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action
Calvin Michael Johnson, a nearly sixty year old man is killed in a car accident. He is given the opportunity to come back as a 16 year old and start over, he is faced with some rather large surprises and and obstacles to overcome as he discovers he is now a young black man in Detroit in the 1970's.
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Carstairs of Arabia
by Ron Dudderie
Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Men's Adventure
Carstairs of Arabia follows Martin King into the heart of the Dark Kingdom: Saudi Arabia. It’s where he expects to find those responsible for the London Underground attack that threatened his family and took his friend’s life. He’s looking for intel. But more than that: he’s out for blood…
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This Is Your Carstairs Speaking
by Ron Dudderie
Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Men's Adventure
Book five in the Carstairs Series first takes Martin to Rome, for his long overdue honeymoon. But trouble follows him everywhere, even when he is merely trying to be a Good Samaritan! Even though office life agrees with him, he can’t resist the chance to become the face of a very prestigious car brand, a job for which he must compete in Doha.
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Flames of Life
by Ernest Bywater
Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
A young man has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. He becomes a writer, and then something else again. First we read two of his stories about himself, then we follow him as he makes another change to his life and changes the lives of many others in the Rivers Region. In the process he unexpectedly meets his own destiny as well.
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