Popular European Adventure Books
Find adventure books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (144)
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi EN
AustriaDescription:
A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea - an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, and with a pict... continue
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No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor EN
EnglandDescription:
Jodi Taylor's best-selling series The Chronicles of St Mary is back with a bang...St Mary's has been rebuilt and it's business as usual for the History department. But first, there's the little matter of a seventeenth-century ghost that only Mr Markham can see. Not to mention the minor inconvenience of being trapped in the Great Fire of London...and an unfortunately-timed comfort break at Thermopylae leaving the fate of the western world hanging in the balance. Re-join Max's madcap journey through time in Jodi Taylor's fifth inter-dimensional instalment No Time Like the Past.
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O deserto dos tártaros by Dino Buzzati PT
ItalyDescription:
Giovanni Drogo, un sottotenente, viene mandato in una lontana fortezza. A nord della fortezza c'è il deserto da cui si attende un'invasione dei tartari. Ma l'invasione, sempre annunciata, non avviene e l'addestramento, i turni di guardia, l'organizzazione militare, appaiono cerimoniali senza senso. Quando Drogo torna in città per una promozione, si accorge di aver perso ogni contatto con il mondo e che ormai la sua unica ragione di vita è l'inutile attesa del nemico. Tornato alla fortezza, si ammala e proprio allora accade l'evento tanto i tartari avanzano dal deserto. Nell'emozione e nella co... continue
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O pequeno príncipe by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry PT
FranceDescription:
Publicado pela primeira vez em 1942 nos Estados Unidos e, três anos mais tarde, na França, O pequeno príncipe tornou-se obra de apelo universal, um clássico moderno traduzido para mais de oitenta idiomas. Suas páginas abrigam valiosas lições sobre a solidão, a amizade, o tempo, a vida e a morte, compartilhadas conosco por meio do pequeno habitante do asteroide B 612. Apesar de escrito e narrado por um adulto, O pequeno príncipe se dirige, desde suas primeiras linhas, às crianças. É, na verdade, uma ode à infância, uma delicada viagem a esse planeta que aos poucos abandonamos, vivendo em prol d... continue
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Octopussy and the Living Daylights by Ian Fleming EN
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Octopussy and the Living Daylights has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming EN
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British secret agent James Bond pursues the beautiful Tracy di Vicenzo, troubled daughter of a crime lord. On the hunt for Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his heavily fortified Alpine stronghold, 007 uncovers SPECTRE's latest plot to take over the world with biological warfare. Now Bond must put a stop to the plan and survive a personal act of vengeance.
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On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick EN
IrelandDescription:
Gripping, evocative and with a hugely engaging cast of characters, this is a stunning first young adult novel from a well-known Irish author/illustrator.
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Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio EN
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Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against e... continue