Caleb Crain
A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a ... [... more]
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Rosemary Sutcliff
Homer's epic poem, The Illiad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In it, the abduction of the legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, leads to a conflict in which even the gods and goddesses take sides and intervene. It is in the ... [... more]
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Cecil Kuhne
Cecil Kuhne is the editor of two previous anthologies on adventure travel, Near Death in the Desert, Cecil Kuhne's newest anthology of survival against all odds, gathers the best adventure stories from the world's most barren landscapes. Ranging ... [... more]
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