Classic Adventures: 132 books

Tale of a young Navy flyer during a world war.

The tale of a beaver, as told by the beaver. A great companion volume to Black Bruin, by the same author.

A young woman is chosen as a spy during the Civil War.  A thrilling story of the Civil War. A brave young girl is sent from New York to New Orleans as a bearer of important messages. Aided by Admiral Farragut she delivers these, but is finally captured and held at Vicksburg, until its surrender to General Grant.

The tale of Baron Capt. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the famous and notorious flying ace of World War I, told in his own words.

At war with Indians. A fast paced action and adventure tale.

Tale of hunters and Indians.

On an April night in 1865, the Secret Service receives word of a gunshot. Abraham Lincoln has apparently been shot.

This story - a love story on two fronts - tells of Captain John Seymour Seymour (repetition of name not a mistake) and his struggle twixt love for Kate and love for his country during the time of General Washington's battle against the British. A must for any citizen of the USA and England if only...

A tale of the battle of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.

Tale of a sea captain who looks for an island that really never existed.

An adventure tale centering on the discovery of gold in British Columbia.

A real thriller and romantic adventure. A escaped prisoner of war meets a young woman, and things proceed from there.

"Alleys of Darkness" features a naive narrator, much like the talkative barber Whitey in Ring Lardner's "Haircut." Added in is a great deal of hyperbole. The violence in this story is an exaggerated cartoon violence. Dennis Dorgan resembles Elzie Segar's Popeye quite a bit....

A story of adventure in South Central Africa. An English scientist learns that the "White Queen" of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance.