Prester John-John Buchan

Prester John by John Buchan.This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty. As a boy growing up on the coast of Scotland, minister's son Davie and two friends were pursued with murderous intent along the cliffs one night by John Laputa, a visiting black African preacher, whom they had witnessed performing un-Christian rites round a campfire on the beach. A few years later, when his father's death forces Davie to quit college and join the tribe of wandering Scots, our hero finds himself in South Africa, assistant shopkeeper in a seemingly sleepy back-veldt store.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Watchers by A. E. W. Mason.A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.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 reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy men threaten him and his new family. Jane and her infant son Jack are kidnapped by Tarzan's enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, who then trap Tarzan himself and attempt to exile him forever on a primitive island, bereft of all those dear to him. There, however, Tarzan gains new allies in the panther Sheeta and the ape Akut, together with Akut's band.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dog Crusoe and His Master by R. M. Ballantyne.Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to make peace between the "pale-faces" and the "Red men". They face many perils and become heroes many times over.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Davy and the Goblin by Charles Edward Carryl.Eight-year-old Davy reads Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and begins to get very sleepy. Suddenly a goblin appears in the fire and takes Davy on a "believing voyage" much like Alice's own adventures in Wonderland, where he meets many characters from fantasy and literature.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs.This is the 11th book in the 24-book series of the character Tarzan. It begins something of a departure from Tarzan's previous adventures, which generally concerned his jungle family and events nearby. Burroughs now introduces wider ranging adventures, with lost kingdoms, hidden riches, and invaders from afar. It is believed that no other figure in the fantasy world has had such enduring impact as has Tarzan.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Boy Scouts on the Trail by St. George Henry Rathborne.The Silver Fox Patrol is up in the Maine Woods, hiking and hunting for big game. The boys find out that guns, and other explosives, can be fun, and dangerous, too! But all the fun comes to an end when some fugitives enter the woods nearby. Herbert Carter is one of many pseudonyms used by St George Rathborne.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace.The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this results in drastic changes to Russian society. This book could be described as a romantic adventure story and the main characters are a weird assortment - Malcolm Hay, a young Englishman, a beautiful Grand Duchess of the Russian Aristocracy, a Russian general, a Jewish bookbinder, and an American sharp shooter. Much happens, and the Russian characters, heavily influenced by their religion and politics, provide a fascinating insight into the mind of the Russian people, aristocrats and peasants, and all those in between.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Adventures of Billy Topsail by Norman Duncan.The first book in a trilogy about Billy Topsail and his dog skipper as they experience a series of adventures that will challenge Billy's courage and resourcefulness, as he navigates the dangers of the sea and the rugged environment surrounding his home in Ruddy Cove, Newfoundland.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina. A collision in the fog brings onboard the brig a survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, who is carrying a dangerous amount of gold on his person. David warns him of a plan by the brig's captain and crew to overpower him and seize the money, and then finds himself fighting alongside Alan in a battle royale.Featured on Adventure Books.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.