mimi10v3Journeys into distance, survival, sea, wilderness, and outlaw legend. These books preserve both the propulsive pleasures of the quest and the historical assumptions packed inside it.
The recorded ratings average 6.3/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Mark Twain.
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The Swiss Family Robinson
About the bookJohann David Wyss's foundational work of the Robinsonade genre follows a Swiss family shipwrecked on a tropical island in the early nineteenth century. After salvaging essential supplie…
6/10Classic Literature : AdventureMoby Dick
About the bookAboard the whaling ship Pequod, Captain Ahab binds his crew to a singular, destructive purpose: the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale that took his leg. What begins as a commercial…
6/10Classic Literature : AdventureRobinson Crusoe
About the bookDaniel Defoe's 1719 novel follows the fictionalized account of Robinson Crusoe, a young Englishman who defies his father's wishes to pursue a life of seafaring. After a series of misadv…
6/10Classic Literature : AdventureThe Call of the Wild
About the bookThis graphic novel adaptation of Jack London's 1903 classic follows Buck, a domesticated dog of St. Bernard and Scotch shepherd lineage, who is stolen from his comfortable life in Calif…
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| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | 6 | Read | → |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1817 | — | Read | → |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 2006 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Odyssey | Homer | — | — | Read | → |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | 1812 | 9 | Read | → |
| Tom Sawyer Abroad | Mark Twain | 1985 | 5 | Read | → |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | 6 | Read | → |