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Adventure – ebook
Jack London
The novel „Adventure” in an acute, exciting form tells about the life of American and European settlers on the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are no less pathos than villains who are so colorful in their villainy that they set their teeth together. Jack London, in the preface, writes that this book came out of the movie script. And truly, it is full of adventure, changing...Data dostępności:
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The Cruise of the Dazzler – ebook
Jack London
This is an early Jack London novel set in his hometown of San Francisco. It is considered the novel of a boy’s adventure. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the sloop team, he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds that the captain is involved in criminal activity. Navigational actions on board a sailing boat are genuinely described, and there are...Data dostępności:
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Allan Quatermain – ebook
H. Rider Haggard
Quatermain has lost his only son and is eager to return to the wilderness. He persuaded Captain John Good and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set off from the coast of East Africa, this time in search of a white race that lives north of Mount Kenya. They encounter a fierce battle with the Masai warriors, undergo a terrible underground journey and discover a lost civilization. As a result,...Data dostępności:
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Affair in Araby – ebook
Talbot Mundy
Hulbert Footner (1879 – 1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920. That is why the novel „Jack Chanty” is based on his canoe adventures...Data dostępności:
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Flaming Irons – ebook
Max Brand
From the popular author of „Destry Rides Again” comes an exciting saga of adventure, romance, honor, and danger, in the Old West. Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later – jailed, hunted and betrayed – Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out, determinedance and death. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary...Data dostępności:
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Bomba the Jungle Boy – ebook
Roy Rockwood
Separated from his parents since childhood, Bomba lived far back in the jungles of the Amazon with a half-demented naturalist who told the lad nothing of his past. The jungle boy was a lover of birds, and hunted animals with a bow and arrow and his trusty machete. He had a primitive education in some things, and his daring adventures will be followed with breathless interest by thousands. „Bomba the...Data dostępności:
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A Lost Lady of Old Years – ebook
John Buchan
John Buchan was a Scottish author and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote a series of books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who was first introduced in the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Set in Scotland in 1745, during the Jacobite Rebellion, this dark story of loyalty and betrayal on the road to Culloden Moor recounts the adventures...Data dostępności:
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The Great Betrayal – ebook
Max Brand
Superstar pulpsmith Max Brand was best known for his Westerns, but his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. He wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. The complete tales of Tizzo the Firebrand contains the 7 stories. „The Great Betrayal” is one of it. The series is set in early 16th Century Italy. Luigi Falcone had...Data dostępności:
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Werewolf – ebook
Max Brand
You don’t get a much more evocative opening than that for a Western novella called „Werewolf”, and the story lives up to both its title and that opening in ways you won’t expect from Max Brand who did write some fantastic fiction. On that bitter night Chris Royal walks into Yates Saloon to escape the storm where Cliff Main, gun happy brother of killer Harry Main, is looking for trouble over a girl...Data dostępności:
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Clung – ebook
Max Brand
Another great Western by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust, Clung is one his most memorable and intriguing characters. As a Western author, Brand did not shrink from controversial topics such as race relations in the Old West. There is a mystery about the birth of Clung, who is raised by an old Chinese man in a small Arizona town, but none about his skill with weapons. At first he shoots in self-defense,...Data dostępności:
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