Best Adventure Novels of all time
Best Adventure fantasy books of all time
This is first novel in our list ( best adventure novels of all time )
Story line: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Robinson Crusoe sets sail from Kingston upon Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career in law.
After a tumultuous voyage, his ship is wrecked in a storm. This journey ends in disaster, when the ship is taken over by Salé pirates and Crusoe is enslaved . After some years later, Crusoe joins a campaign to kidnap and enslave people from Africa, but he is shipwrecked in a storm to the coast of an island near the Venezuelan coast. Only he and three animals,survive the shipwreck.
He brings weapons, tools and other equipment from the ship before it crashes and sinks. He builds a fenced house near a cave. He gets some tools from the ship Some he makes himself, he hunts, grows barley and rice, learns to make raisins, dried grapes, pottery, and raises goats. He also adopts a small parrot.
He becomes religious by reading bible He
thanks to God for his fate. After some years later, Crusoe discovers cannibals,
who visit the island to kill and eat prisoners. when a prisoner escapes, Crusoe
helps him,Crusoe him "Friday" Robinson then teaches him English
language and converts him to Christianity. Crusoe left the island in 1686 and
arrived in England in 1687. He learns that his family believes he is dead and
he left nothing in his father's will.
2: King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Genre: Adventure,Fiction,Mystery
King Solomon's Mines is one of the Best adventure fiction books
Story line: Allan Quatermain, an adventurer, a Durban-based
expedition and white hunter, was approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend
Captain Good to help find Sir Henry's brother.
He was last seen traveling north in search of
King Suleiman's mines in an undiscovered interior. Quatermain has a mysterious
map purporting to lead to the mines.However, he agrees to a expedition in
exchange for a portion of the treasury, or a stipend for his son if he is
killed along the way.
He has little hope that they will return alive. They also take along a mysterious native, Umbopa, Travelling by oxcart, they reach the edge of a desert, but not before a hunt in which a wounded elephant claims the life of a servant. They continue on foot across the desert,Reaching a mountain range called Solomon Berg.
They soon meet a party of Kukuana warriors who are
about to kill them when Captain Good nervously fidgets with his false teeth,
making the Kukuanas recoil in fear.They are brought before King Twala, who
rules over his people. The Englishmen bid farewell to a sorrowful Infadoos and
return to the desert, assuring him that they value his friendship but must
return to be with their own people,They return to Durban and eventually to
England, wealthy enough to live comfortable lives.
3: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Genre: Historical,Adventure
The story starts in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839. It is the story of a man who is wrongly imprisoned, and then escapes from prison, gains wealth, and seeks revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.Before he can marry Edmond Dantès, a nineteen-year-old Frenchman, his first mate falsely accuses him of treason, arrests him, and imprisons him without trial in Château a grim island fort in Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly estimates that his arrogant rival, Fernand Mondigo, jealous staff member, Dengler, and a double-dealing magistrate, de Velfort turned him in.
Faria inspires him for escape and guides him to a fortune in treasure. As the powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo (Italy), Dantès arrives from the Orient to enter the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s and avenge himself on the men who conspired to destroy him.This historical novel is the story of an adventure centered on the themes of hope, justice, revenge, mercy and forgiveness.
When they are caught by goblins and driven deep underground and Bilbo gets separated from the others and there Bilbo finds Golem's fallen ring. The ring gives him the power to disappear from others, and then Bilbo escapes and rejoins the dwarves.
Where Bilbo saves his companions
with giant spiders in the black forest. after continuing travel, the group finally
reaches the mountain, Bilbo
finds the Arcane Stone, the most valuable treasure of the Thorin
family, and hides it.
5: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Genre: Adventure
Story line: This book is the story of Ishmael, a sailor, the captain of the whale ship Pequod. The story of revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale. Ishmael travels from Manhattan Island to New Bedford in December.
Ishmael, announces his intent to ship aboard a whaling vessel. He travels to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he stays in a whalers’ inn.They take a ferry to Nantucket, the traditional capital of the whaling industry.
The Pequod rounds Africa and enters the Indian Ocean.From time to time, the ship encounters other whaling vessels.During another whale hunt, Pip, the Pequod’s black cabin boy, jumps from a whaleboat and is left behind in the middle of the ocean.
Ahab orders a harpoon forged in the expectation that he
will soon encounter Moby Dick.On the third day, the boats are once again sent
after Moby Dick, who once again attacks them. Moby Dick rams the Pequod and sinks it. Ishmael, who was thrown from a boat at the beginning of the chase, was far
enough away to escape the whirlpool, and he alone survives.For a day and a
night, Ishmael floats on it, until the Rachel, still looking for its lost
seamen, rescues him.
6: A Wizard of Earth Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre: Fantasy,Magical
This is one of the best magic fantasy books
Story line: The novel tells the story of a young boy named Duny. He was born on the island of Gaunt., he discovers that he has the great innate power, his aunt teaches him the little magic that she knows. When Kargish raiders attack his village.
Duny called for the fog to cover the village and its inhabitants. And he drove the residents out of the Kargs, Upon hearing this, the powerful magician Ogion gives him his "real name" Ged and takes him as an apprentice.
At school, Ged's skills inspire teachers At the school. After Jasper Needles Gad during the feast, Jade challenges him to duel of magic. Ged casts a powerful spell intended awakening of a legendary dead woman spirit, but the spell goes wrong and releases a shadow creature, which attacks gad and scars his face.
Ged spends several months recovering him before resuming his studies. On the island of Iffish, he meets his friend Vetch.Vetch insists him to join . They travel east, far beyond the last known lands, before they finally come to the shadows. Naming it with his own name, Ged merges himself with it and tells Vetch he is healed.
7: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Genre: Adventure,Fiction
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The novel begins with hold of a sailing ship with the titular family, facing a severe storm. The crew leaves without them, and William and Elizabeth and their four sons are left to survive alone. The ship survives and the family finds themselves within a tropical desert island.
The next morning, they decide to go to the island they can see beyond the cliffs. With much effort, they make vessel out of tubs. After filling the tubs with food and ammunition and all the other valuables they can safely take away. they row toward the island.
Arriving at the island, the family set up a makeshift camp . The family spends the next few days protecting themselves from starvation. William and Fritz make several trips in an effort to bring everything useful from the ship to shore. The book covers ten years of family life.
William and the older boys explore different environments and
create homes and gardens in different locations around the island. In the end, fathers
wonder if they will ever see the rest of humanity again. Eventually, a British
ship searching for Jenny Montrose's anchors near the island discovers the
family.
8: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Genre: Adventure,Fiction
This novel is also fictional and adventure
Story line: This is the story of Jim Hawkins 'treasure. Jim a young boy who lives in his parents' inn, Admiral Banbo, near Bristol. When An old sea captain named Billy Bones dies in the inn.Jim and his mother unlock Billy’s sea chest, they finds a log book and map inside.
Jim realizes that the contents he has snatched from the sea chest must be valuable.they recognize it as a map for a huge treasure that the infamous pirate Captain Flint has buried on a distant island and he immediately starts planning an expedition.The ship sets sail for Treasure Island.
Landing at the island, Captain Smollett planned to capture most of the ship's rebels.Smollett and his men's goes ashore and take shelter in a stockade the pirates built s. Jim sneaks to a pirate boat and goes ashore with them.Jim returns to the store but finds it in the occupied of the pirates.
Jim and Silver flee, and the others were led to
Ben's Cave, where Ben had hidden the treasure he had discovered months earlier. After spending three days carrying the loot to
the ship, the men prepare to set sail for home,The rest of them sail back to
Bristol and divide up the treasure.
9: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Genre: Adventure
After flying in a severe storm for several days,
the group crashed on a mountainous Cliff, volcanic, in unknown island. The
group named it "Lincoln Island" in honor of Abraham Lincoln. With the
knowledge of the brilliant engineer Smith, the five are able to save themselves
on the island,
They then create fire, pottery, bricks, iron, a
simple electric telegraph, a cave house inside a rock. and even a seaworthy
ship.
Ayrton's former comrades arrive at Lincoln Island by chance and try to make it into their lair. After some time fighting with the protagonists, And then the pirate ship is mysteriously destroy by an explosion. Six of the pirates survive and they kidnap Ayrton.
After that, the
island's main volcano erupts, destroying the island. The colonists, who warn in
advance of the eruption of Nemo, seek refuge on the last remaining part of the
island above sea level. They are rescued by the ship Duncan, which had come to
rescue Ayrton.
Upon their return to the United States, they set up a new colony in Iowa, financed by Nemo's gifts.
The story begins, at the Lidenbrock house in Hamburg, Germany. Professor Leidenbrook arrives home to inspect his latest antiquarian. While reading the book, Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel found a coded note written in Runic script with the name of the 16th century Icelandic chemist, Arne Saknussemm.
Axel discovers the answer. Lidenbrock translates the paragraph, a 16th-century note written by Saknussemm, who claims to have discovered a passage to the center of the earth via the crater of Snæfellsjökull in Icelan. Lydon Brooke takes Axel with him and immediately leaves for Iceland. And they finally reach the volcano, which has three craters.
According to Saknussemm's message, the route to the earth's center is via the crater۔Reaching the bottom of the crater, the three travelers set off into the bowels of the earth, encountering many dangers and strange phenomena. Following Hansbach's path, explorers descend several miles and reach a large cave. As the search for the coastline continues, the explorers see a passage marked by the Saknussemm.
They Pedal their raft to the sea to avoid an explosion. After spending hours descending
at breakneck speeds, their fleet changes direction and climbs inside the
volcanic chimney, which eventually throws them into the open air. All three
return to Germany after such a bad adventure.
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