Action & Adventure
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Read by Karen Savage
E. Nesbit
This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savag…
Kim
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Rudyard Kipling
Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling…
Ivanhoe
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Sir Walter Scott
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…
The Lost World
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not …
The Beasts of Tarzan
Read by James Christopher
Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published i…
Ben-Hur
Read by Mark F. Smith
Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator wh…
White Fang
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jack London
When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to ex…
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Jules Verne
The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation…
The Elusive Pimpernel
Read by Karen Savage
Baroness Emma Orczy
First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel…
The Reluctant Dragon
Read by Mark F. Smith
Kenneth Grahame
What would you do if you discovered a dragon living in a cave on a hill above your home? Make friends, read poetry together? It turns out th…
El Dorado
Read by Karen Savage
Baroness Emma Orczy
El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The nove…
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Read by Karen Savage
Hugh Lofting
After his parrot Polynesia teaches him to speak animal languages, Doctor Dolittle decides to abandon his human practice, and become an anima…
A Princess of Mars
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a …
The Swiss Family Robinson
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Johann David Wyss
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Read by Bob Neufeld
H. G. Wells
In this classic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel …
The Son of Tarzan
Read by Ralph Snelson
Edgar Rice Burroughs
This is the fourth of Burroughs' Tarzan novels. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his en…
Around the World in Eighty Days
Read by Ralph Snelson
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…
The Master of the World
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jules Verne
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volca…
Pellucidar
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar is a fictional "Hollow Earth" milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The sto…
To the Last Man
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranc…