The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (9780743255066): Benjamin Franklin. All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque (9780099496946): Erich Maria Remarque. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) (9780140449266): Alexandre Dumas père, Robin Buss. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (9780226500669): Norman Maclean. King Solomon's Mines (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (9781593082758): H. Rider Haggard, Benjamin Ivry. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (9780385494786): Jon Krakauer. Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series) (9781416500292): Robert Louis Stevenson. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) (9780141439822): Daniel Defoe, John Richetti. Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) (9780142437247): Herman Melville, Andrew Delbanco, Tom Quirk. How to Speed Read. 50 Best Non-fiction Adventure Books. Following up on our recent look into the world of fictional adventure literature, we now turn to the true life tales of exploration, adventure, and survival against all odds that have inspired countless readers for generations.
Unlike their fictional counterparts, these riveting tales of conquests and ill fated journeys are completely true, and stand as a testament to man’s unquenchable desire to seek out the unknown, often against all odds and in the face of unbelievable hardship. This is not considered a complete list of all the great tales of true life adventure, so please take advantage of the comments section to share what other true life tales of adventure you recommend to your fellow men. And now, to continue on in the world of high adventure… Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton details his own efforts to cross the Antarctic by sled.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. 50 Best Fiction Adventure Books. Nothing speaks to the heart of man like a good tale of adventure.
Whether in the form of a bedtime story read to young boys or a nail biting page turner that keeps you up at night, the adventure story is one genre of literature that stays with you for a lifetime. The very mention of such novels brings to mind images of buried treasure, hidden deep in the jungle of a deserted island, protected by dastardly pirates and the local cannibal population. Or perhaps the mind jumps instead to the image of a forgotten world, complete with lost civilization and monstrous creatures of a bygone era. Whatever your personal adventure fantasy, there are some stories we all can relate to. Listed here, in no particular order, are fifty adventure novels that no man should go a lifetime without reading. And now, to jump into the world of high adventure…. (Note to RSS and Email readers: Because of the length of this post we had to break it up into sections in order for it to appear in your reader or inbox.
Boy Scouts Handbook: The First Edition, 1911 (Dover Books on Americana) (9780486439914): Boy Scouts of America. The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) (9780451208637): Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) (9780142437230): Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Rutherford, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. Ulysses (9780679722762): James Joyce. Another Roadside Attraction (9780553349481): Tom Robbins.
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Edition) (9780525948926): Ayn Rand. The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (9780143039600): Jack Kerouac, Jason, Ann Douglas. The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics) (9780451529619): Johann D. Wyss, J. Hillis Miller, Elizabeth Janeway. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks) (9780375756788): Edmund Morris. The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics) (9780689856747): Jack London, Gary Paulsen. How to Win Friends & Influence People (9780671027032): Dale Carnegie. Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) (9780486277905): Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Catcher in the Rye (9780316769174): J. D. Salinger. The Brothers Karamazov (9780374528379): Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition (9780465069347): Plato, Allan Bloom.
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (9780385333849): Kurt Vonnegut.