Adventure genre books (306)
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne EN
FranceDescription:
Verne's classic novel of global voyaging One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.... continue
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Aru Shah and the City of Gold by Roshani Chokshi EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Aru Shah and her sisters,including one who also claims to be the Sleeper's daughter, must find their mentors Hanuman and Urvashi in Lanka, the city of gold, before war breaks out between the devas and asuras. Aru has just made a wish on the tree of w
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At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Introduction by China Miéville Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization–is a milestone of macabre literature. This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraft’s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scho... continue
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Auf dem Strom by Hermann Schulz DE
TanzaniaDescription:
Als der Missionar Friedrich Ganse nach einer Reise nach Bujora zurückkehrt, ist seine Frau Eva tot und seine Tochter Gertrud lebensgefährlich erkrankt. Der herbeigeeilte Schamane des afrikanischen Dorfes hilft Gertrud mit seinen Heilkünsten, und doch sieht er nur einen Weg, das Leben des Kindes zu retten: Vater und Tochter müssen die lange Fahrt mit dem Boot flussabwärts auf sich nehmen, damit Gertrud im Krankenhaus behandelt werden kann. Fünf Tage und fünf Nächte ist er mit dem Kind unterwegs. Unterbrochen wird ihre Fahrt mit dem Boot durch kurze Landg&... continue
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the greatest American writers' Independent From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-�winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Ren� Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters - barkskins. Ren� suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest ... continue
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Bartlett and the Ice Voyage by Odo Hirsch EN
AustraliaDescription:
The Queen is a very busy woman who rules over seven kingdoms, some of which she has never even seen. Each kingdom is filled with its own exotic delights, and her loyal subjects constantly send her gifts from far and wide. But there is one fruit she craves--the melidrop--which, until now, has been out of her reach because it rots on the long journey from the far off country in which it grows. This is where Bartlett--the intrepid, stubborn, inventive and irreverent explorer--comes in! A rip-roaring, fantastical roller-coaster of an adventure story overflowing with wit and rollicking suspense. Th... continue
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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami PT
JapanDescription:
Em 1997, o jornalista e escritor japonês Koushun Takami sofreu uma grande decepção. O manuscrito de seu romance de estreia havia chegado à final do Japan Grand Prix Horror Novel, concurso literário voltado para a ficção de terror, mas acabou preterido. Não era para menos. Embora habituado a tramas assustadoras, o júri se alarmou com a história do jogo macabro entre adolescentes de uma mesma turma escolar que, confinados numa ilha, têm de matar uns aos outros até que reste apenas um sobrevivente. Detalhe: o organizador da sangrenta disputa é o próprio Estado japonês, imaginado pelo autor como u... continue
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ItalyDescription:
Baudolino, having just rescued a court official caught in the sacking and burning of Constantinople in 1204, proceeds to entertain the man with the fantastical story of his life.
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Bilbo le hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien FR
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Bilbo, comme tous les hobbits, est un petit etre paisible qui n'aime pas etre derange quand il est a table. L'aventure lui tombe dessus comme la foudre, quand le magicien Gandalf et treize nains barbus viennent lui parler de tresor, d'expedition perilleuse, et du dragon Smaug... qu'il va affronter. Car Bilbo doit partir avec eux ! Et le plus extraordinaire, c'est que le hobbit affrontera tous les dangers, sans jamais perdre son humour, meme s'il tremblera plus d'une fois.
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Bingo's Run by James A. Levine EN
EnglandDescription:
A tale set against the backdrop of Kenya's poverty-stricken slums and luxury resorts follows the experiences of a young drug runner who makes deliveries to a reclusive artist before his witness of murder leads to his adoption by a woman who tests his sense of morality.