Adventure genre books (306)


91.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad EN

Rating: 4 (16 votes)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
In this reprinting of the great Conrad classic, Green Integer presents his tale of white colonialism and the effects of the African world on European self-satisfaction. Marlow's tale of his voyage through the Congo and the legends surround a previous explorer-adventurer named Kurtz gradually reveal the dark horros of both the Western impact on Africa and its effects on Western civilisation. Conrad's tale is a brilliant symbolic work as well as a great adventure story. The book, one of the true classics of 20th century literature endures as a favourite to this day.

92.

Heidi : (fetiţa munţilor) by Johanna Spyri RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

93.

High Albania by Mary Edith Durham EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
"High Albania is a passionate and flamboyant account of life in the formidable mountainous terrain of Northern Albania. Travelling throughout the Balkans for seven years - particularly in Albania with which she became intrigued - Durham cut a strange figure in her 'waterproof Burberry skirt' and 'Scotch plaid golf cape', but she won the people's trust, respect and affection and was called 'The Queen of the Mountain People'."--BOOK JACKET.

94.

Hippie by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
A journey to the past. A map for the future. After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam’s famous Dam Square. Together they decide to take the fabled hippie trail across Europe to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus, in search of self-discovery. So begins a life-defining love story that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.

95.

How to Bee by Bren MacDibble EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Even though she is only nine — and bees must be ten — Peony already knows all there is to know about being a bee and she is determined to achieve her dream. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but t... continue


97.

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Aquella mañana, Kady creía que terminar con Ezra sería lo más duro que tendría que hacer ese día. Por la tarde, su planeta fue invadido. Corre el año 2575 y dos megacorporaciones rivales entran en guerra por un planeta de los confines del universo. Lástima que a nadie se le ocurre avisar a la población... Bajo un diluvio de fuego enemigo, los ex novios Kady y Ezra - que ahora apenas se hablan - tratan de abrirse camino hasta la flota de evacuación mientras una nave militar enemiga les pisa los talones. Pero ese es el menor de sus problemas. Una plaga mortal ha mutado, con resultados aterradore... continue

98.

Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast his as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.

99.

În sălbăticie by Jon Krakauer RO

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Povestea emoţionantă a morţii tânărului Chris McCandless în sălbăticia Alaskăi în 1992 stârneşte reacţii intense în societatea americană. Jon Krakauer, colaborator al revistei Outside, publică un articol pe această temă, impresionat de asemănarea dintre povestea tânărului şi propriile lui experienţe, dar şi ale altora dinaintea lor. După o minuţioasă cercetare, Krakauer scrie "În sălbăticie", refăcând traseul lui McCandless, urmărindu-l pas cu pas, stând de vorbă cu oamenii pe care acesta i-a cunoscut în ultimii doi ani de v... continue

100.

In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of The Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of his Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. In Search of the Castaways (French: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit. 'The Children of Captain Grant') is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, t... continue