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Adventure fiction is a genre of that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting and other elements of a creative work.— Excerpted from Adventure novel on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The works here are sorted by setting or theme.

Adventure

Contents

Desert adventure

Afghanistan

• The Country of the Knife
• The Daughter of Erlik Khan
• The Lost Valley of Iskander
• Hawk of the Hills
• Son of the White Wolf

Extraordinary journeys

• Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• Tom Sawyer Abroad

Historical adventure

• The Blood of Belshazzar
• Hawks of Outremer
• Scaramouche
• Red Blades of Black Cathay
• The Shadow of the Vulture
• The Lion of Tiberias
• Blood of the Gods
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Gates of Empire
• The Sowers of Thunder
• The Saga of Eric Brighteyes

Swashbuckling

• The Curse of Capistrano
• Doctor Syn

Jungle adventure

• The Beasts of Tarzan
• The Return of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Tarzan of the Apes
• The Son of Tarzan

Sea adventure

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas
• Captains Courageous, 1897 by Rudyard Kipling
• Mr. Midshipman Easy
• A Floating City
• The Three Cutters

Pirates

⁠See also: Portal:Pirates

• Captain Blood
• The Sea-Hawk
• Black Vulmea's Vengeance
• The Isle of Pirate's Doom
• Treasure Island
• Treasure Island (1911)
• The Pirate (Marryat)
• Swords of the Red Brotherhood
• The Privateersman, or One Hundred Years Ago

Science fiction adventure

⁠See also: Portal:Science fiction

Lost World

• King Solomon's Mines
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Out of Time's Abyss
• The People That Time Forgot
• Journey into the Interior of the Earth
• At the Earth's Core
• The Return of Tarzan
• The Lost Continent

Edisonade

• The Huge Hunter

Planetary romance

• The Gods of Mars
• A Princess of Mars
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars
• The Warlord of Mars

Spy adventure

⁠See also: Portal:Thriller

• Bull-dog Drummond
• King of the Khyber Rifles
• The Thirty-Nine Steps

War adventure

• The Four Feathers, 1902 by Alfred Edward Woodley Mason

Collections

• Yule Logs

Verse

• The Man From Snowy River, 1890 by Banjo Paterson
• In Answer to Banjo, and Otherwise

Unsorted

• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Allan and the Holy Flower
• Allan Quatermain
• Allan's Wife
• The Cave Girl
• The Efficiency Expert
• The Geebung Polo Club
• The Mission
• The Mucker
• The Oakdale Affair
• Oonomoo the Huron
• The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894 by Anthony Hope Hawkins
• The Return of the Mucker
• Up The Country
• The Wizard

See also

• Portal:Thriller

External links

• Adventure fiction at WorldCat