The Big Book of Adventure Stories

The Big Book of Adventure Stories
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030747450X

A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains some of the best characters from the most thrilling adventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian; Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided into sections that embody the greatest themes of the genre—Sword & Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand and Sun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy, Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa—it is destined to be the greatest collection of adventure stories ever compiled. Featuring: Lawless open seas Ferocious army ants Deadeyed gunmen Exotic desert islands Feverish jungle adventures Including: The story that introduced The Cisco Kid The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible

The Greatest Adventure

The Greatest Adventure
Author: Tony Piedra
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338290495

Where does true adventure come from? A young Latino boy and his grandfather find the true answer together. Eliot imagines sailing wild rivers and discovering giant beasts, right there on his block! But he wishes his adventures were real. Eliot's grandpa, El Capitan, once steered his own ship through dangerous seas, to far-off lands. But he can't do that anymore. Can Eliot and El Capitan discover a real adventure... together? Come find out! All aboard The Greatest Adventure!

Endurance

Endurance
Author: Alfred Lansing
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465058795

Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

The Treasure of Pirate Frank

The Treasure of Pirate Frank
Author: Mal Peet
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763696447

A boy and his dog set sail in search of treasure, braving stormy seas, snowy mountains, and other challenging obstacles, before finally reaching the end of their quest: the treasure of Pirate Frank.

Write Your Own Adventure Stories

Write Your Own Adventure Stories
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Write Your Own
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781409586821

A write-in book which will allow children to pen their very own adventure story. With lots of hints and tips on how to create characters, plan plots, write dialogue and stage all-important action scenes, this book will start budding writers off with simple exercises, and build them up until they are racing through their own short stories.

Start Writing Adventure Stories

Start Writing Adventure Stories
Author: Penny King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781593890759

Offers beginning writers six themes and numerous helpful hints to guide them through every stage of creating an adventure story.

Write Your Own Adventure Story

Write Your Own Adventure Story
Author:
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756516383

Guide to writing adventure stories with tips on creating believable characters and plots, using dialogue, and overcoming writer's block.

Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy

Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy
Author: Mal Leicester
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2010-07-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136953094

This book takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom. Providing eight original adventure stories, the authors build up a suite of resources and activities for teachers to use in the classroom.