Does Veeky Forums have an essential adventure-core list or recommendations. I love tails of daring escapades and romantic struggle over dastardly foes. I've read treasure island, count of monte cristo, three muskateers, most of Tolkeins works and adored the seven pillars of wisdom (obviosly not strictly adventure but still is an amazing tale). What else would I enjoy?
Also, do you enjoy these sort of novels and is the lack of modern literature with these themes a god or bad signo of the times in your mind?
I love ERB! Over one hundred adventures to choose from.
Andrew Moore
The Book of the New Sun
Jace Walker
The Odyssey Captain Courageous and Swiss Family Robinson (since you like Treasure Island) The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle) Jules Verne should be up your alley Emilio Salgari? Not really my genre, so I'm running out of ideas. This chronological list could help you out: hilobrow.com/adventure/
Bentley Rodriguez
Jack Vance: The Dying Earth
Michael Sanchez
This!
Evan Wilson
The Riddle of the Sands
Nathan Jones
Kidnapped! Beau Geste
Anthony Diaz
Forester's Hornblower series, O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, anything by Rafael Sabatini
Nicholas Ross
>adventure-core the odyssey moby-dick; or, the whale robinson crusoe the conquest of new spain the travels of marco polo the travels of sir john de mandeville
Elijah Jenkins
The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson
Comfy-core
Gabriel Thompson
All Sabatini, All Haggard, and Kipling's wonderful novel Kim.
Jackson Adams
check out wind, sand and stars by antoine de saint-exupery, it's short, about his plane crash in the desert.
Easton Hill
To match the naval period pieces mentioned here (Napoleonic Wars) with some terrestrial campaigning Cornwell's Sharpe's Rifles series.
Cameron King
Also Southern Mail, my favorite St. Ex.
Levi Jones
Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum is the greatest adventure book ever conceived.
Justin Reyes
Fantastic recommendation user.
Dominic Wood
Jules Verne
Landon Brown
You seem to have a very similar taste to my own. Here are some books that match your description, which I loved and wish I could read for the first time again:
The Odyssey The Aeneid The Anabasis by Xenophon Moby Dick by Melville Typee by Melville Billy Budd by Melville Kim by Rudyard Kipling The Red and Black by Stendhal The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco Ivanhoe by Walter Scott The Medallion by Walter Scott
Eli Cox
what are his best?
Dylan Kelly
kek
Sebastian Adams
Captain Blood
Jose Robinson
Anything Conrad. Also Peter Matthiessen
James Evans
i love you Veeky Forums, good night, sweet dreams
Juan Powell
This. I cannot echo this enough.
Ian Cox
see >Forester's Hornblower series
Try the first book he wrote in the series: Beat to Quarters (has a different title outside the US). Lot of good adventure therein, and a touch of romance as well.
Forester's African Queen is another of his adventure stories, and a very good read. The film adaptation is quite faithful to the book.
Asher Wright
If you like historical novels try "Empires of Sand" and "The Sword and the Scimitar" (also called "Ironfire" in an earlier edition) by David Ball. Both are amazing novels and do not get nearly the attention and the credit they deserve. I like them better than the Ken Follett or Noah Gordon stuff.
Parker Cruz
I really enjoyed Arabia Felix, would heartily recommend
