Adventure Books

Lost with Lieutenant Pike

Edwin L. Sabin

This story takes the adventure trail of that young soldier-explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was lost in the mountains of southern Colorado one hundred years ago.The southwestern boundary was unce..

The Bird Boys' Aeroplane Wonder

John Luther Langworthy

Nobody had ever been able to climb to the summit of that precipitous height, and when the Bird boys landed there once from their aeroplane and planted a flag above the nest of the white-headed eagles ..

The Rider of the Mohave

James Fellom

The rider was in a half swoon, mumbling thickly. Above his right ear was a long, bloody furrow, like the plow of a bullet. The bandanna he had had for a bandage had slipped down over his face, neglect..

A United States Midshipman Afloat

Yates Stirling

As soon as the short meal was over Phil went to his room and changed his uniform, donning the oldest he owned, but the bright lace and lustrous braid was in great contrast to the uniforms of those off..

A United States Midshipman in the South Seas

Yates Stirling

In this story Midshipmen Phil Perry and Sydney Monroe, together with Boatswain’s Mate “Jack” O’Neil, act through an historic drama of a South Sea war.In “A United States Midshipman in Japan,” they dis..

Through the Crater's Rim

A. Hyatt Verrill

Scarcely had the realization come to me when an arrow thudded sharply into a tree by my side and Carlos, with a wild yell of deadly fear, threw down his load and dashed madly away. Not an Indian could..

The Cruise of the Pelican

Henry Bedford-Jones

A monstrous voice was that, a roaring thunderous voice that filled the dingy old back room with rolling waves of sound. Startled, Tom Dennis reached to the nearest electric bulb, switched it on, and d..

John Solomon—Supercargo

H. Bedford-Jones

Harcourt himself was little bothered over his own financial crash. Accustomed to thinking little of money or its value, he did not trouble greatly about making his living now that his plans for the im..