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 23m
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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 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama
2The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama
3CHAPTER I I UNDERTAKE A HAZARDOUS VOYAGE
4CHAPTER IV WE COME TO GRIEF
5CHAPTER VII THE FOLLY OF THE WISE
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6CHAPTER XI PRINCESS ILALAH
7CHAPTER XV WE SEARCH FOR THE VALLEY
8CHAPTER XX OUTWITTED
9The Boy Fortune Hunters in China
10The Boy Fortune Hunters in China
11The Boy Fortune Hunters inChina
12CHAPTER VI. “OLD DEATH’S-HEAD.”
13CHAPTER XII. MAI LO MAKES A DISCOVERY.
14CHAPTER XVIII. THE SACRED APES OF KAI.
15CHAPTER XXIII. THE TREASURE OF THE ANCIENTS.
16CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VENGEANCE OF THE RUBY SCIMITAR.
17Doubloons—and the Girl
18CHAPTER I (pt. 1)
19CHAPTER I (pt. 2)
20CHAPTER I (pt. 3)
21CHAPTER I (pt. 4)
22In Search of Treasure
23In Search of Treasure
24CHAPTER I INTRODUCES GUY AND HIS FATHER
25CHAPTER VI GUY’S PROGRESS
26CHAPTER X AT MILTON SCHOOL
27CHAPTER XVI GUY FINISHES UP HIS BUSINESS IN LONDON
28CHAPTER XXII THE CAPTAIN OF THE OSPREY
29CHAPTER XXIX ON THE ISLAND
30CHAPTER XXXIV HOW SUCCESS BECAME FAILURE
31Wrecked on Spider Island; Or, How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure
32CHAPTER I. NED ROGERS.
33CHAPTER II. AT SEA.
34CHAPTER III. THE PLOT.
35CHAPTER IV. MAROONED.
36CHAPTER V. A DISCOVERY.
37CHAPTER VI. THE ZOE.
38CHAPTER VII. THE DISASTER.
39CHAPTER VIII. WRECKING.
40CHAPTER IX. GHASTLY VISITORS.
41CHAPTER X. TREASURE-SEEKING.
42CHAPTER XI. THE YACHT.
43CHAPTER XII. THE MYSTERY.
44CHAPTER XIII. AFLOAT.
45CHAPTER XIV. UNDER WAY.
46CHAPTER XV. AT SEA.
47CHAPTER XVI. AN ANXIOUS CREW.
48CHAPTER XVII. IN PORT.
49CHAPTER XVIII. HAVANA.
50CHAPTER XIX. SUSPICIONS.
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