The Grand Library of Treasure Hunts: A 45-Book Collection
Forty-Five Classic Quests of Lost Maps, Hidden Treasure, Sea Peril, and Frontier AdventureBy Walter Walden, Richard Le Gallienne, William MacLeod Raine, John Maxwell Forbes, Camilla Kenyon, Arthur D. Howden Smith, Ross Kay, Ralph Delahaye Paine, Andrew Jackson Howell, Elliott Whitney, George Manville Fenn, Horatio Jr. Alger, Victor Appleton, Laura Lee Hope, Paul Hutchens, James Otis, G. A. Henty, Charles Gilson, Harry Castlemon, Percy F. Westerman, G. Harvey Ralphson, Upton Sinclair, John Henry Goldfrap, Spencer Davenport, L. Frank Baum, Grace Brooks Hill, Edward Stratemeyer, Capwell Wyckoff, Harold L. Goodwin, James R. Driscoll, Roy J. Snell, Frank V. Webster, Jean L. McKechnie, Rupert Sargent Holland, Gerald Breckenridge, J. T. Trowbridge, Leo E. Miller
Length284h 22m
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The Grand Library of Treasure Hunts gathers forty-five adventure narratives around the enduring romance of maps, lost hoards, remote frontiers, and perilous discovery. Ranging from sea yarns, imperial romances, and wilderness expeditions to schoolboy adventures, detective-inflected quests, and imaginative juvenile fiction, the volume illuminates the flexibility of the treasure-hunt plot. Shipwrecks, secret islands, vanished cities, coded clues, and contested inheritances provide recurring dramatic engines, while the collection's varied registers move between realism, melodrama, humor, technological wonder, and fantasy. Its contributors represent a broad transatlantic culture of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular writing, especially the flourishing markets for boys' series fiction, children's literature, magazine adventure, and historical romance. Their combined work reflects the period's investment in exploration, self-reliance, comradeship, and modern mobility, while also inviting critical attention to the imperial assumptions and social ideals embedded in adventure literature. Across these distinct voices, treasure becomes not merely wealth but a narrative means of testing courage, knowledge, loyalty, and imagination. This capacious anthology is recommended for readers of classic adventure and for students of popular culture, children's literature, and genre history. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrative conventions across many authors and settings, tracing how a shared quest structure accommodates strikingly different styles, ethical pressures, and visions of the unknown.
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GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length284 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama
2CHAPTER I I UNDERTAKE A HAZARDOUS VOYAGE
3CHAPTER IV WE COME TO GRIEF
4CHAPTER VII THE FOLLY OF THE WISE
5CHAPTER XI PRINCESS ILALAH
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6CHAPTER XV WE SEARCH FOR THE VALLEY
7CHAPTER XX OUTWITTED
8The Boy Fortune Hunters in China
9The Boy Fortune Hunters inChina
10CHAPTER VI. “OLD DEATH’S-HEAD.”
11CHAPTER XII. MAI LO MAKES A DISCOVERY.
12CHAPTER XVIII. THE SACRED APES OF KAI.
13CHAPTER XXIII. THE TREASURE OF THE ANCIENTS.
14CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VENGEANCE OF THE RUBY SCIMITAR.
15Doubloons—and the Girl
16CHAPTER I
17CHAPTER II
18CHAPTER III
19CHAPTER IV
20CHAPTER V
21CHAPTER VI
22CHAPTER VII
23CHAPTER VIII
24CHAPTER IX
25CHAPTER X
26CHAPTER XI
27CHAPTER XII
28CHAPTER XIII
29CHAPTER XIV
30CHAPTER XV
31CHAPTER XVI
32CHAPTER XVII
33CHAPTER XVIII
34CHAPTER XIX
35CHAPTER XX
36CHAPTER XXI
37CHAPTER XXII
38CHAPTER XXIII
39CHAPTER XXIV
40CHAPTER XXV
41CHAPTER XXVI
42CHAPTER XXVII
43CHAPTER XXVIII
44CHAPTER XXIX
45CHAPTER XXX
46CHAPTER XXXI
47CHAPTER XXXII
48CHAPTER XXXIII
49CHAPTER XXXIV
50CHAPTER XXXV
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