Genre :: Adventure (41 books)

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  #441

  Martin Eden

  by Jack London

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in..."

  

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  #446

  The Ballad of the Salt Sea

  by Hugo Pratt

  (1 Review)

  39 Points

  

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  #477

  A High Wind in Jamaica

  by Richard Hughes

  (2 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined..."

  

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  #498

  Centennial

  by James A. Michener

  (3 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of..."

  

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  #509

  The Three Musketeers

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (11 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."

  

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  #525

  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

  by Howard Pyle

  (6 Reviews)

  20 Points

  "In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was..."

  

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  #535

  Holes

  by Louis Sachar

  (9 Reviews)

  18 Points

  "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

  

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  #538

  Waverley

  by Walter Scott

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent."

  

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  #557

  The Last of the Mohicans

  by James Fenimore Cooper

  (4 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an..."

  

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  #582

  Jurassic Park

  by Michael Crichton

  (8 Reviews)

  9 Points

  "The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering."

  

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