Action Adventure Books

Back To Gods Country And Other Stories

  [english | 1920]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [After her father is killed by an outlaw Dolores marries Peter. While at sea in the Arctic Dolores meets the ships captain -- the man who killed her father! The captain causes an accident to happen to Peter so Dolores is all alone and defenseless as they drop anchor in a remote harbor.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 40

Baree Son Of Kazan

  [english | 1917]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [The story of the son of the blind Grey Wolf and the gallant part he played in the lives of a man and a woman.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | westerns] Downloads: 59

Kazan The Wolf Dog

  [english | 1914]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [The tale of a quarter-strain wolf and three-quarters husky torn between the call of the human and his wild mate.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 247

The Alaskan

  [english | 1923]  

James Oliver Curwood

Excerpts: [... the almost vivid light, and in that light her eyes were wide and filled with a dusky fire, and her lips were parted a little, and her slim body was ...... I wish I were a man. I wish you were, agreed Alan amiably. Whereupon Mary Standish's pretty mouth lost its softness for an instant. But Alan ...... thinking about Keok and Nawadlook and the people of his range. From somewhere he ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 272

The Country Beyond

  [english | 1922]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The book is in reality an intersectional interdisciplinary analysis of the Commissions potential and realized effects on post-Apartheid South Africa. The book can be understood as having three main elements: First it is a collection of accounts ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | westerns] Downloads: 40

The Danger Trail

  [english | 1910]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [A tale of love Indian vengeance and a mystery of the North. The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago engineer who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region is involved in mystery and is led into ambush by a young woman.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | westerns] Downloads: 483

The Flaming Forest

  [english | 1921]  

James Oliver Curwood

Excerpts: [... finding something to complain about, even in their love days. And these were love days. That was the odd thought that came to Carrigan as he lay ...... Greater desire he had never had than this which thrilled him in these present minutes of his readjustment???desire to look upon the woman again. And ...... dipped in and out of the water beginning to shimmer in moonlight. But he ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | westerns] Downloads: 21

The Grizzly King

  [english | 1918]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [As in human life there are tragedy and humour and pathos in the life of the wild there are facts of tremendous interest real happenings and real lives to be written about and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This book was the inspiration for French director Jean-Jacques Annauds 1988 film The Bear.)]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 470

The Hunted Woman

  [english | 1915]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [A tale of a great fight in the valley of gold for a woman.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | westerns] Downloads: 441

The Rivers End

  [english | 1919]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [The Rivers of Zadaa is the sixth novel in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 218

The Valley Of Silent Men

  [english | 1920]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [If you cant find it countless millions of miles in space come back to Earth. You might find it just on the other side of the fence?where the grass is always greener.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 286

The Wolf Hunters

  [english | 1918]  

James Oliver Curwood

Summary: [A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 358

Black Bartlemys Treasure

  [english | 1920]  

Jeffery Farnol

Summary: [Martin Conisby embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda escapes during a sea fight and makes his way back to England determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon who was the cause of his fathers death and his own ill-treatment. Broken in body and spirit he arrives home just in time to save from the hands of robbers a beautiful girl Lady Joan Brandon the daughter ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 150

Martin Conisbys Vengeance

  [english | 1921]  

Jeffery Farnol

Summary: [A classic pirate tale of the Spanish Main featuring the female pirate Captain Jo.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 21

Swiss Family Robinson

  [english | 1812]  

Johann David Wyss

Summary: [Swiss Family Robinson is the classic tale of a Swiss pastor his wife and their four sons who find themselves shipwrecked on an isolated tropical island. Along with a couple of dogs some livestock pigeons and geese Swiss Family Robinson is the story of a familys struggle to survive in a foreign land isolated from society. Everyday brings a new adventure and a new obstacle to overcome. Above all ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | juvenile] Downloads: 168

Huntingtower

  [english | 1921]  

John Buchan

Excerpts: [... As he gazed at his simulacrum he stopped whistling Roy's Wife and let his countenance harden into a noble sternness. Then he laughed, and observed ...... nine precisely he retired to bed and unhesitating sleep. Next morning he awoke to a changed world. The sky was grey and so low that his outlook was ...... the legend The Cruives Inn. The Poet became lyrical. At last! he cried. The ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 305

Prester John

  [english | 1899]  

John Buchan

Excerpts: [... Then I struck the path and, to my relief, came on Archie and Tam, who were running slowly in desperate anxiety about my fate. We then took hands and ...... office stool. Had I not been still under the shadow of my father's death I might have welcomed the chance of new lands and new folk. As it was, I felt ...... to deal in them, and when I was in the intelligence here we used to ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 71

Salute To Adventurers

  [english | 1915]  

John Buchan

Summary: [A novel of action and excitement set in 17th century Virginia -- a challenging untamed land.]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 479

The Path Of The King

  [english | 1921]  

John Buchan

Excerpts: [... But who is more likely to inherit the fire-the elder son with his flesh-pots or the younger son with his fortune to find? Just think of it! All ...... butt of England! After that the helms were swung round, and a course laid south by west. And then the mist came again, but this time it was less of a ...... fen. On the far side of the water stood the Lady Hilda. He halted and waited ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 190

Moonfleet

  [english | 1898]  

John Meade Falkner

Summary: [Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline. It remains a popular story widely read and is still sometimes studied in schools.The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 285