The Adventures of UlyssesAuthor: Charles Lamb Published: 1808
This work is designed as a supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus. It treats of the conduct and sufferings of Ulysses, the father of Telemachus. The picture which it exhibits is that of a brave man struggling with adversity; by a wise use of events, and with an inimitable presence of mind under difficulties, forcing out a way for himself through the severest trials to which human life can be exposed; with enemies natural and preternatural surrounding him on all sides. The agents in this tale, besides men and women, are giants, enchanters, sirens: things which denote external force or internal temptations, the twofold danger which a wise fortitude must expect to encounter in its course through this world. The fictions contained in it will be found to comprehend some of the most admired inventions of Grecian mythology.
| African Camp FiresAuthor: Stewart Edward White Published: 1914
Spirited sketches of hunting and adventure in British East Africa, which give an excellent idea of native life, the country, and its development by the white man, the game found and the spirit of Africa, and often show a nice sense of humor. (Publishers description from 1914)
| The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nileand Explorations of the Nile SourcesAuthor: Samuel White Baker Published: 1866
I have written "HE!" How can I lead the more tender sex through dangers and fatigues, and passages of savage life? A veil shall be thrown over many scenes of brutality that I was forced to witness, but which I will not force upon the reader; neither will I intrude anything that is not actually necessary in the description of scenes that unfortunately must be passed through in the journey now before us. Should anything offend the sensitive mind, and suggest the unfitness of the situation for a woman's presence, I ......
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The House of a Thousand CandlesAuthor: Meredith Nicholson Published: 1905
A novel of romance and adventure, of love and valor, of mystery and hidden treasure. The hero is required to spend a whole year in the isolated house, which according to his grandfather's will shall then become his. If the terms of the will be violated the house goes to a young woman whom the will, furthermore, forbids him to marry. Nobody can guess the secret, and the whole plot moves along with an exciting zip.
| Mysterious Mr. SabinAuthor: E. Phillips Oppenheim (Anthony Partridge) Published: 1905
When Lord Wolfenden saw, in the supper-room of the Milan Restaurant, a beautiful woman and became acquainted with her by saving the life of her elderly companion, the mysterious Mr. Sabin, as they leave the restaurant, he little knew the web of intrigue into which he was entering. It was impossible not to love the unknown, and it seemed equally impossible to marry her when her identity was known, but Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and this is one of the best of his many good and exciting books.
| Guilt of the Brass ThievesAuthor: Mildred A. Wirt Published: 1945
Mr. Gandiss and his son, Jack, ask Mr. Parker to help them stop the theft of brass from their airplane factory. While Jack and Penny visit the factory, a piece of brass is found in the possession of Sally Barker, and she is fired. Sally maintains that she has no idea how the brass came to be in her locker, and Penny believes her. With Jack and Sally's help, Penny attempts to bring the real thieves to justice
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Adrift in the Ice-Fields Author: Charles W. Hall Published: 1877
This book attempts to chronicle the adventures and misadventures of a party of English gentlemen, during the early spring, while shooting sea-fowl on the sea-ice by day, together with the stories with which they whiled away the long evenings, each of which is intended to illustrate some peculiar dialect or curious feature of the social life of our colonial neighbors.
| Across Asia on a BicycleAuthor: Thomas Gaskell Allen Co-author: William Lewis Sachtleben Published: 1894
The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to PekingBeginning in June, 1890, two young American students made a bicycle journey around the world--so far as they could on land--and were back in New York, whence they had sailed for Liverpool to begin their wheeling in just under three years. They regard their journey through Western China and the Desert of Gobi as the most interesting and most dangerous parts of their travels.
| Across Unknown South AmericaAuthor: Arnold Henry Savage Landor Published: 1913
Few people realize that Brazil is larger than the United States of North America, Germany, Portugal, and a few other countries taken together. The interior is practically a terra incognita--although the ancient Jesuits and, at a later date, escaped slaves and native rubber collectors have perhaps found their way inland to a considerable distance.
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Adventures Among the Red IndiansAuthor: H. W. G. Hyrst Published: 1911
Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South AmericaThese pages describe the adventures of men whom duty or inclination has brought into contact with the Indians of the entire American continent; and, since every day sees the red race diminishing, or abandoning the customs and mode of life once characteristic of it, such adventures must necessarily relate mainly to a bygone generation.
| The Adventures of GerardAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle Published: 1903
I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read.
| The Adventures of Miss GregoryThe Adventure with the Slave DealerAuthor: Perceval Gibbon Published: 1911
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The Adventures of Miss Gregory: The Honest ManAuthor: Perceval Gibbon Published: 1911
"Brussels," wrote Miss Gregory in her diary, "is a fine, sleek city; but, at present it seems to be inhabited chiefly by members of the Gould family." It was to be her last halt before crossing to England, a lingering out of the flavor of travel before proceeding to the process of digestion; but, in the Goulds, it seemed as if England were thrusting forward to meet her. She had not finished inscribing her name in the hotel register before she heard that name pronounced behind her in accents of joy, and turned to encounter a demonstrative old gentleman with misty white whiskers, whom she recognized, after a moment of hesitation, as Gould senior. "Of all people!" he was babbling. "But this is simply charming! The wanderer returned, eh? I was sure I recognized your back." "Very good of you," said Miss Gregory, surprised. The Goulds for some years past had certainly seen
| An Antarctic Mysteryor, The Sphinx of the Ice FieldsAuthor: Jules Verne Published: 1899 228 pg
| An Adventure With A GeniusRecollections of Joseph PulitzerAuthor: Alleyne IrelandPublished: 1920
In the course of my wanderings about the labyrinth of life it has been my good fortune to find awaiting me around every corner some new adventure. If these have generally lacked that vividness of action which to the eye of youth is the very test of adventure, they have been rich in a kind of experience which to a mature and reflective mind has a value not to be measured in terms of dramatic incident. My adventures, in a word, have been chiefly those of personal contact with the sort of men whose lives are the material around which history builds its story, and from which fiction derives all that lends to it the air of reality. I have had friends and acquaintances in a score of countries, and in every station of society--kings and beggars, viceroys and ward- politicians, judges and criminals, men of brain and men of brawn. My first outstanding adventure was with a stern and formidable man, the captain of a sailing vessel, of whose ship's company I was one
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