The Great American Adventure: 20 Classic Novels
Twenty Classic Tales of Frontier Quests, Sea Voyages, Wilderness Survival, and American ExplorationBy Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack London, Herman Melville, Zane Grey, John Wesley Powell, Joshua Slocum, Robert Montgomery Bird, Oliver Optic, Mary Mapes Dodge, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Clarence King, Richard Henry Dana, Henry David Thoreau, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sarah H. Bradford, Theodore Winthrop, T. C. Harbaugh, Dillon Wallace
Length334h 46m
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The Great American Adventure: 20 Classic Novels gathers a capacious tradition of U.S. adventure writing, where frontier romance, sea narrative, wilderness memoir, travel chronicle, juvenile fiction, satire, and tales of survival meet. Its selections trace contested landscapes—from forests, rivers, and prairies to oceans, mining camps, and polar routes—while testing the moral costs of expansion, encounter, mobility, and self-reliance. Sea voyages, western expeditions, and wilderness ordeals stand beside comic and skeptical treatments of national myth. The volume brings together canonical novelists, explorers, reform-minded writers, journalists, naturalists, and authors of popular fiction. Voices associated with Romantic historical fiction, Transcendental reflection, realism, regionalism, frontier literature, and the literature of exploration collectively reveal adventure as more than escapism: it is a record of territorial ambition, Indigenous contact, class aspiration, technological change, and environmental imagination. The inclusion of expeditionary and autobiographical perspectives broadens the anthology's sense of what constitutes an American adventure. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this collection offers an unusually rich cross-section of styles and historical sensibilities in one volume. It invites readers to compare heroic conventions with irony, documentary observation with romance, and national confidence with unease. As such, it is both an engaging survey of classic adventure writing and a valuable starting point for examining how American literature imagined movement, danger, and the promise—and peril—of the unknown.
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GenreAction and Adventure, Literary Classics
Length334 hrs 46 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters
2The Call of the Wild & White Fang
3The Call of the Wild
4Chapter I. Into the Primitive
5Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
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6Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
7Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
8Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
9Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
10Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
11Part 1
12Chapter I. The Trail of the Meat
13Chapter II. The She-Wolf
14Chapter III. The Hunger Cry
15Part 2
16Chapter I. The Battle of the Fangs
17Chapter II. The Lair
18Chapter III. The Grey Cub
19Chapter IV. The Wall of the World
20Chapter V. The Law of Meat
21Part 3
22Chapter I. The Makers of Fire
23Chapter II. The Bondage
24Chapter III. The Outcast
25Chapter IV. The Trail of the Gods
26Chapter V. The Covenant
27Chapter VI. The Famine
28Part 4
29Chapter I. The Enemy of His Kind
30Chapter II. The Mad God
31Chapter III. The Reign of Hate
32Chapter IV. The Clinging Death
33Chapter V. The Indomitable
34Chapter VI. The Love-Master
35Part 5
36Chapter I. The Long Trail
37Chapter II. The Southland
38Chapter III. The God’s Domain
39Chapter IV. The Call of Kind
40Chapter V. The Sleeping Wolf
41The Sea Wolf
42Chapter 1
43Chapter 2
44Chapter 3
45Chapter 4
46Chapter 5
47Chapter 6
48Chapter 7
49Chapter 8
50Chapter 9
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