The Big Book of Adventure Stories: The Most Daring, Dangerous, and Death-Defying Collection of Adventure Tales EverCaptured in One Mammoth Volume
Description
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
PUBLISHER:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
030747450X
ISBN-13:
9780307474506
BINDING:
Paperback
BISAC:
Fiction
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2011
NUMBER OF PAGES:
896
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
1.44(H) x 7(W) x 9.1(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English