Action & Adventure

Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection

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Robert W. Service



On August 13-15, 2010, A hearty band of Librivox volunteers, led by Bob Ledrew and Sean McGaughey, recorded selections from the Spell of the…

Old-Fashioned Tales

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Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten



This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The storie…

The History of Robinson Crusoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


William James McGlothlin



A 6-page digest of Defoe's famous work for young readers (Summary by Dennis Sayers)

Fulco de Minstreel

Read by Anna Simon


Cornelis Johannes Kieviet



Dit avonturenverhaal speelt zich af vlak voor het jaar 1300. Fulco, dienaar van de ridder Gijsbrecht van IJsselstein, heeft zijn bijnaam &qu…

The Seats of The Mighty

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Gilbert Parker



For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain …

Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Thomas Lodge



This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high…

The Old Adam

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Arnold Bennett



Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midland…

The Red Hawk

Read by Ben Tucker


Edgar Rice Burroughs



This third book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Moon Sequence (preceded by The Moon Maid and The Moon Men) finds Julian 20th, The Red Hawk, leading…

The Mystery of Cabin Island

Read by James R. Hedrick


Franklin W. Dixon



The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American detective and from their father learned the particulars of a number of unusual crimes. The…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Read by Mark F. Smith


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Dr. Watson sits down again to ruminate over his notes of all the mysteries he has joined Sherlock Holmes in investigating. In the “Memoirs o…

The Peril Finders

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George Manville Fenn



In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are faili…

The Son of the Wolf

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Jack London



The Son of the Wolf is Jack London's first published collection of stories and features tales chronicling the harsh realities of living in t…

The Boy Scout Aviators

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George Durston



Follow the adventures of Harry Fleming, Dick Mercer, and Jack Young in this exciting Boy Scout adventure! Harry is an American Boy Scout sep…

The Cliff Climbers

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Thomas Mayne Reid



A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures…

The Talking Handkerchief

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Thomas Wallace Knox



This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural d…

Nobody's Boy

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Hector Malot



One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of …

In Desert and Wilderness

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Henryk Sienkiewicz



In Desert and Wilderness is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. It tells the story of…

The Lances of Lynwood

Read by Carol Pelster


Charlotte Mary Yonge



The Lances of Lynwood brings to life the high days of knighthood and chivalry in the 14th century during the Hundred Years War, in which the…

Marooned in the Forest

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Alpheus Hyatt Verrill



Lost in the depths of the forest without food, fire, weapons, or compass, what is a young man to do? This "modern-day" Robinson C…

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