The Explorer's Library: 60 Adventure Classics
Sixty Timeless Tales of Shipwrecks, Treasure Hunts, Lost Worlds, Frontier Peril, and Fantastic JourneysBy Jack London, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Rider Haggard, G. A. Henty, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Maurice Leblanc, Bret Harte, H. G. Wells, R. M. Ballantyne, George Augustus Sala, Max Brand, James Fenimore Cooper, Zane Grey, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Carlo Collodi, Robert Montgomery Bird, H. C. McNeile, Oliver Optic, E. W. Hornung, Baroness Orczy, E. Nesbit, James Oliver Curwood, Mrs. Loudon, William Clark Russell, Frederick Marryat, Richard Henry Dana, Joshua Slocum, Rafael Sabatini
Length963h 16m
About this audiobook
The Explorer's Library: 60 Adventure Classics surveys the enduring literature of peril, discovery, travel, and imaginative escape. Its selections range from maritime narratives, imperial romances, frontier tales, and survival stories to speculative voyages, detective-inflected adventures, and children's fantasy. Sea crossings, lost worlds, treasure quests, wilderness encounters, and voyages beyond ordinary geography reveal adventure fiction as a flexible form through which writers tested courage, technology, empire, morality, and the limits of knowledge. The volume's juxtaposition of canonical works with popular classics makes its scope especially valuable. The contributors span the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, bringing together British, American, French, Italian, Swedish, and Irish literary traditions. They include major architects of the historical novel, scientific romance, sea tale, frontier narrative, colonial adventure, and fairy-tale quest, alongside influential writers of juvenile fiction and popular serial literature. Their varied social settings and formal approaches illuminate the circulation of adventure across Romanticism, Victorian mass print culture, realism, modern popular fiction, and the literature of empire. Read collectively, these voices expose both the exhilarations of exploration and the cultural assumptions that shaped its representation. Ideal for students, general readers, and devoted admirers of classic fiction, this anthology offers an unusually broad encounter with adventure's many modes. It invites readers to compare styles, settings, and ethical horizons across a single capacious volume, while fostering productive dialogue between tales of wonder, danger, travel, and survival.
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Rating★★★★ 4.5 (11)
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length963 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Four Months in a Sneak-Box (Annotated)
2The Explorer's Library: 60 Adventure Classics
3Treasure Island
4Part I The Old Buccaneer
5Part II The Sea Cook
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6Part III My Shore Adventure
7Part IV The Stockade
8Part V My Sea Adventure
9Part VI Captain Silver
10King Solomon's Mines
11CHAPTER I I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS
12CHAPTER II THE LEGEND OF SOLOMON'S MINES
13CHAPTER III UMBOPA ENTERS OUR SERVICE
14CHAPTER IV AN ELEPHANT HUNT
15CHAPTER V OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT
16CHAPTER VI WATER! WATER!
17CHAPTER VII SOLOMON'S ROAD
18CHAPTER VIII WE ENTER KUKUANALAND
19CHAPTER IX TWALA THE KING
20CHAPTER X THE WITCH-HUNT
21CHAPTER XI WE GIVE A SIGN
22CHAPTER XII BEFORE THE BATTLE
23CHAPTER XIII THE ATTACK
24CHAPTER XIV THE LAST STAND OF THE GREYS
25CHAPTER XV GOOD FALLS SICK
26CHAPTER XVI THE PLACE OF DEATH
27CHAPTER XVII SOLOMON'S TREASURE CHAMBER
28CHAPTER XVIII WE ABANDON HOPE
29CHAPTER XIX IGNOSI'S FAREWELL
30CHAPTER XX FOUND
31Queen Sheba's Ring
32CHAPTER I THE COMING OF THE RING
33CHAPTER II THE ADVICE OF SERGEANT QUICK
34CHAPTER III THE PROFESSOR GOES OUT SHOOTING
35CHAPTER IV THE DEATH WIND
36CHAPTER V PHARAOH MAKES TROUBLE
37CHAPTER VI HOW WE ESCAPED FROM HARMAC
38CHAPTER VII BARUNG
39CHAPTER VIII THE SHADOW OF FATE
40CHAPTER IX THE SWEARING OF THE OATH
41CHAPTER X QUICK LIGHTS A MATCH
42CHAPTER XI THE RESCUE FAILS
43CHAPTER XII THE DEN OF LIONS
44CHAPTER XIII THE ADVENTURES OF HIGGS
45CHAPTER XIV HOW PHARAOH MET SHADRACH
46CHAPTER XV SERGEANT QUICK HAS A PRESENTIMENT
47CHAPTER XVI HARMAC COMES TO MUR
48CHAPTER XVII I FIND MY SON
49CHAPTER XVIII THE BURNING OF THE PALACE
50CHAPTER XIX STARVATION
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