Adventure classics, by land and sea
A treasure map, a submarine, a volcano in Iceland and an island where no one should land.
These are the books that made adventure stories what they are: maps, ships, strange machines and places no reader had seen before. All of them were first published in the nineteenth century, and all of them still move fast.
Two were written in French by Jules Verne and come to you here in English. Each one takes you somewhere different: an island, the deep sea, the inside of the earth.
The books
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson- English
- First published 1883
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First printed as a serial in the magazine Young Folks in 1881 and 1882, then as a book in 1883. Young Jim Hawkins finds a map and sails with Long John Silver.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne- English
- First published 1869
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First published in French as a serial in 1869 and 1870. Professor Aronnax is taken aboard the Nautilus, the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne- English
- First published 1864
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Published in French in 1864. Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their guide Hans climb down into an Icelandic volcano toward the centre of the earth.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells- English
- First published 1895
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Published in 1895. Edward Prendick, rescued after a shipwreck, is left on an island where a scientist is turning animals into something like people.
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