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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Poor Things by Alasdair Gray EN
ScotlandDescription:
What strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
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Purity of Blood by Arturo Pérez-Reverte EN
SpainDescription:
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing 50 escudos and a handwritten, unsigned note. Chief Constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste.
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Quijote en el Congo by Xavier Aldekoa ES
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Esta es la historia de un sueño infantil convertido en obsesión adulta «Durante más de dos meses de navegación fui Sancho Panza. Como el escudero de la mayor novela de caballerías jamás escrita, fui testigo fascinado de aquel mundo desconocido que se abría ante mí, recorriendo un río quijotesco, casi místico, que se adentraba bravo y temerario en una selva infranqueable para construir a su paso una historia extraordinaria.» A lo largo de más de 4.700 kilómetros, el río Congo, esencia de la riqueza y las cicatrices de todo un continente, es una puerta abierta a la historia, la cultura y las tra... continue
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Rinconete and Cortadillo by Miguel De Cervantes EN
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The son of a deaf surgeon, Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575, de Cervantes spent five years in prison. He was freed in 1580 and returned home. De Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. He died in 1616. For nearly his entire life, Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially. His father, Rodrigo, deaf from birth, worked as a surgeon-a lowly trade at the time. De Cervantes and his family moved around seve... continue
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe EN
EnglandDescription:
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe DE
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Nach einem Schiffbruch landet Robinson Crusoe auf einer einsamen Insel. Gemeinsam mit seinem Gefährten Freitag meistert er das Leben in der Wildnis. Der Roman basiert auf einem Tatsachenbericht eines schottischen Seemanns. (Verlagstext).
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Smiley's People by John le Carre EN
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A spy story that gives the final convulsive confrontation between George Smiley and his mortal enemy, Karla.
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Description:
Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous—in pursuit of love and the utterly impossible.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi EN
ItalyDescription:
"The Adventures of Pinocchio is a book by Carlo Collodi, first published in 1883. It tells the story of a poor carpenter named Geppetto who creates a marionette called Pinocchio. A full of mischief boy who gets into trouble the moment he is created, having adventures along the way. He meets lots of characters; one of which is a fairy, who eventually turns Pinocchio into a real boy after he saves her life."