Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominal...
This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major And...
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not gi...
A Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote...
Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays life in the ocean. Learn about the common and not so common that swim about in...
The title of this book quotes its object. To tell something of night hunting, and especially to suggest how the ever necessary dog can best be selecte...
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unr...
The first act takes place outside a spa overlooking a fjord. Sculptor Arnold Rubek and his wife Maia have just enjoyed breakfast and are reading newsp...
The Cruise of the Snark is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his...
The Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young...
Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find target...
Further adventures of Allan Quatermain.
This is one of the 14 books that H. Rider Haggard wrote - starting with "King Solomon's Mines" - depicting the...
These eight essays about Charles Dudley Warner’s visit to the Adirondacks cover a broad range of topics, all with more or less of his dry humor. They...
“The stranger and the unknown must be always looked on with distrust.” -- Billy Mink The Green Forest and the Smiling Pool are full of adventure for...
Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, hunting, fishing...
The author of this book, Ralph Henry Barbour, was a prolific writer of scholastic and college sports and adventure fiction for boys. Here is a departu...
This is the fourth book in the "Outdoor Girls" series. In this story, the scene is shifted to a winter season. The girls have some jolly times skating...
It tells the story of a young falconer who meets a peculiar falcon, and the two embark on a journey of discovery and self-discovery. Throughout the no...
In "Strange Roads," Machen weaves a haunting tale about a young man who sets out on a journey to uncover the secrets of the mysterious stone circle kn...
It tells the story of a group of adventurous young women who find themselves at a mysterious mansion in the countryside.
Set against the backdrop of...
In this, Roosevelt provides vivid and detailed descriptions of his hunting trips, including encounters with grizzly bears, elk, and other wild animals...
