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James Oliver Curwood - Alaskan

A wilderness story of adventure and intrigue in Alaska in the 1920’s. Summary by Maire Rhode.

Roger Melin and 4 more 9 hours 8 minutes

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Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon

Join three intrepid explorers as they seek to cross and explore the continent of Africa from Indian Ocean to Atlantic Ocean, except they’re doing it by hot air balloon. Scholar and scientist Samuel Ferguson, his...

Alex C. Telander 8 hours 16 minutes

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Edward Ormondroyd - David and the Phoenix

David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an...

Greg Weeks 3 hours

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Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2)

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Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2)

Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit — with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever — he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around...

Mark F. Smith 7 hours 36 minutes

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Samuel B. Allison - American Robinson Crusoe

An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents' wishes. The ship (and all of its crew) is lost in a storm, but Robinson...

Allyson Hester 3 hours 15 minutes

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Rookwood

A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narrative, poetry, song, and descriptive writing to great effect. The character...

Paul Curran 16 hours 57 minutes

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Stanton Henry King - Dog-Watches At Sea

Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors'...

Peter Kelleher 7 hours 35 minutes

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially-designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not...

Tom Weiss 4 hours 47 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Jules Verne - Dick Sands the Boy Captain

Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea...

Alex C. Telander 8 hours 37 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Beasts of Tarzan

This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1916. In the previous novel Tarzan...

James Christopher 5 hours 20 minutes Tarzan Series

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H. Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She

Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the world looking for Ayesha, along the way they experience many adventures,...

fetchboi40369 and 5 more 13 hours 1 minute Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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Jules Verne - Master of the World

Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an...

Mark F. Smith 4 hours 54 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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