Explore adventure and exploration titles built around journeys, challenges, discovery, risk, and action. This collection currently contains 57 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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A nineteenth-century engineer lands in Arthurian legend and attempts to apply modern technology and organization to a medieval world. The result is adventure wrapped around a satire of institutions, power and technological confidence
London combines frontier hardship, romance and survival against a severe northern environment. The setting is not decoration: weather and terrain determine what the characters can do
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne's adventure follows fortune-seekers through danger, exploration, and the pursuit of wealth in a world of travel and uncertainty
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture is an autobiographical account of an African-born man who was brought into slavery in the United States and lived there for more than six decades. The narrative follows the transformations of a life shaped by enslavement, forced labor, family
Jack London’s novel follows a woman and a man on a dangerous tropical plantation, combining romance, racial conflict, violence, survival, and colonial-era power dynamics
Adventures in Contentment is built around a man deliberately stepping away from the pressures of conventional success and discovering that a quieter life can contain its own kind of adventure. David Grayson's narrator is not seeking treasure, status, or heroic achievement
Adventures in Friendship treats friendship itself as an experience worthy of exploration, examining how relationships are formed, tested, deepened, and remembered across the course of ordinary life. Rather than relying on a conventional adventure plot, the book finds movement in the changing
Affairs of State follows an American family whose journey into the land of windmills becomes entangled with European politics, aristocratic expectations, romance, and the kind of improbable misunderstandings that belong to light adventure fiction. The family arrives expecting travel, but
H. Rider Haggard’s African adventure features exploration, conflict, hidden kingdoms, danger, and the quest for lost places and treasure
American Big Game in Its Haunts documents North America's major game animals through descriptions, illustrations, observations, and reports associated with the conservation and hunting culture of the Boone and Crockett Club. The book's subjects include large mammals of the American wilderness
Jules Verne sends explorers into the Antarctic in search of answers surrounding a missing expedition, combining polar survival, travel, danger, and mystery
An Antarctic Mystery, Jules Verne's continuation of the world imagined in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, follows a new expedition into the far south as explorers attempt to uncover what happened after Pym disappeared. The journey begins with mystery rather than certainty
A wager turns global travel into a race against time while the novel builds excitement from transport changes, delays, logistics and cultural encounters
A romantic adventure set in a fictional European principality where political intrigue, mistaken identity, travel, and romance intersect
A historical sea adventure built around betrayal, exile, seamanship, political conflict and the pleasures of a revenge-and-reputation plot
Defoe presents the life and adventures of a pirate whose career moves through voyages, trade, plunder, and attempts to secure wealth while navigating shifting loyalties
A spoiled wealthy boy is rescued at sea and forced to work aboard a fishing schooner, learning discipline, labor, courage, and responsibility
Zane Grey combines romance, pursuit, banditry, and survival in the American Southwest, where the desert becomes both setting and obstacle
John Buchan's wartime thriller sends Richard Hannay across Europe and the Middle East in a race involving espionage, conspiracy, military intelligence, and the First World War
The Hardy Boys investigate hidden treasure and criminal schemes, following clues and taking risks as they try to uncover the source of the mystery
Inca Land records Hiram Bingham’s explorations in Peru and his encounters with archaeological remains associated with the Inca civilization. Bingham combines travel narrative, geography, archaeology, and adventure, describing difficult journeys through mountains and valleys in search of sites
Scott’s historical adventure follows the knight Ivanhoe amid tournaments, political conflict, romance, religious tension, and struggles between Saxon and Norman society
Journals of Australian Explorations records the expeditions of Augustus Charles Gregory and his companions as they traveled through poorly mapped parts of Australia. The journals combine geography, surveying, natural observation, route planning, weather, encounters with Indigenous communities
Verne mixes geology, underground exploration and scientific curiosity in a classic expedition novel where the unknown is approached through maps, measurements and imagination
A collection of Tarzan adventures in which the jungle, rival expeditions, dangerous animals, and human conflicts drive a series of episodic survival stories
Jungle Tales of Tarzan returns to Tarzan’s early life, presenting a series of episodes that show how the boy raised among apes becomes the extraordinary figure known from the later adventures. The stories explore his physical development, his education in the jungle, his relationship with the
A road-and-identity novel that joins espionage, travel, friendship and imperial India, with the journey itself shaping the reader’s sense of place and character
Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into unexplored Africa in search of a lost mine, facing dangerous landscapes, rival adventurers, and legendary treasure
Conrad studies shame, reputation, courage and self-deception through a man whose moral failure becomes the center of his identity
David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa combines travel narrative, missionary testimony, geographical exploration, natural observation, and advocacy. Livingstone describes years spent moving through southern and central Africa, crossing difficult terrain
John Buchan’s adventure follows a young colonial officer drawn into a rebellion and pursuit involving an African kingdom, danger, leadership, and questions of imperial power
Scott combines romance and historical adventure as Frank Osbaldistone becomes entangled in Scottish political conflict, family rivalry, and the legendary Rob Roy
Roy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp turns the scouting camp into a complete little world where outdoor skills, rivalry, friendship, discipline, and mischief can coexist. Roy and the other boys are expected to learn practical abilities—camping, organization, teamwork, navigating the outdoors—but
Salute to Adventurers is a historical adventure set against a period of political and military conflict in Europe, using action, loyalty, danger, and divided allegiances to drive the story forward. John Buchan’s adventure fiction often places an individual inside a much larger crisis, forcing
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is Tobias Smollett’s sprawling comic novel about a young man whose education in pride, love, travel, and human folly takes him through a world of eccentric characters and increasingly chaotic situations. Peregrine is wealthy, intelligent, energetic, and
Roderick Random is Tobias Smollett’s picaresque novel about a young man thrown into a harsh, ridiculous world where survival depends on wit, adaptability, and luck. Roderick is separated from security early in life and pushed into a succession of occupations, journeys, friendships, rivalries
Zane Grey follows characters seeking escape and renewal in the American West, combining romance, hardship, travel, and the tension between modern life and frontier landscapes
Cooper places Natty Bumppo in the North American frontier during conflict with enemy forces, exploring wilderness survival, friendship, honor, violence, and encounters between cultures
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker follows a family traveling through England and Wales in a chaotic journey that becomes a comic cross-section of eighteenth-century British society. Tobias Smollett tells the story through letters written by different characters, so the same event can look
The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-Work is a historical survey of the expeditions that mapped the Australian continent from the perspective of a writer interested in how exploration changed national knowledge. Ernest Favenc traces explorers, journeys, hardships, geographical discoveries
Crusoe returns to travel and risk after the island years, making this a useful follow-on for readers interested in the continuation of an adventure life
A northern wilderness adventure involving travel, danger, survival, and encounters with the Canadian landscape and its people
Cooper combines wilderness travel, captivity, frontier conflict and shifting alliances in a novel whose adventure is inseparable from its portrayal of American frontier life
A long-form survival adventure emphasizing routine, practical work, isolation and the gradual construction of a livable life from scarce resources
Two former soldiers travel into a remote region intending to build their own kingdom, but ambition, deception, and local power structures turn their dream into a catastrophe
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood turns the legendary outlaw of Sherwood Forest into a heroic, comic, and highly readable figure who steals from the powerful, helps the poor, outwits officials, and gathers a band of companions around him. Howard Pyle combines medieval ballad tradition with his
James Fenimore Cooper follows frontier scouts and settlers through wilderness travel, military conflict, romance, and survival during the struggle between colonial powers
H. Rider Haggard sends an adventurer into an isolated African kingdom where political conflict, hidden wealth, danger, and exotic landscapes drive the story
A brutal sea voyage becomes a philosophical and survival story about power, labor, intelligence and the relationship between civilized manners and violence
Rafael Sabatini follows a seafaring hero through piracy, naval conflict, captivity, revenge, and romance in a swashbuckling historical adventure
A fast-moving spy adventure in which a man on the run must decode a conspiracy while moving through Britain under constant pressure
The Young Trail Hunters is a frontier adventure centered on Hal Hyde and Ned Brown as they travel across the Great Plains and encounter the dangers of life beyond settled communities. The journey gives the story its structure: every new stretch of country creates a problem involving weather
Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea is an anthology-style adventure book built around travel, danger, exploration, and survival in unfamiliar environments. James Brayman draws on the popular nineteenth-century appetite for stories that carry readers beyond ordinary life, alternating between
Stevenson gives the adventure novel a nearly perfect engine: a map, a voyage, divided loyalties, pirates and a young narrator learning to read danger
Voyage of the Paper Canoe records an extraordinary nineteenth-century experiment: Nathaniel H. Bishop, often associated with the exploration of the North American interior, describes a long geographical journey in a lightweight canoe along waterways from Quebec toward the Gulf of Mexico
Wild Northern Scenes is a nineteenth-century account of hunting and fishing adventures in northern wilderness, combining outdoor travel with descriptions of animals, landscapes, weather, camps, and the practical challenges of moving through remote country. The ‘rifle and rod’ of the title
Wolves of the Sea is a historical pirate adventure presented as the recovered manuscript of Geoffrey Carlyle, a seaman whose life becomes entangled with pirate voyages, danger, violence, and the uncertain politics of colonial-era waters. The manuscript framing gives the story an old-adventure
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