Classic adventure yarns

Brilliant classics, RLS, JMF, and ACD. have read them all many times. I get a bit mixed up between Moonfleet and Kidnapped.
 
Never read Moonfleet but saw the movie with Stewart Granger in the main role.

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore was a favorite of mine back when the Library was my main source of books.
 
I think the Moonfleet movie is supposed to be quite different from the book, which, with me, might be due for a rereading. There's a tremendous sequence with climbing the Dover cliffs, as I recall.
 
Anybody read read John Meade Falkner, by the way? There's also The Lost Stradivarius (a leisurely-paced ghost story) and The Nebuly Coat. But Moonfleet is his adventure novel.

I have. Frankly, I'm surprised that Moonfleet isn't more famous than it is. It's much better than many others that are more highly regarded.

The Lost Stradivarius I liked equally well, but for very different reasons. (Well, not entirely different reasons, because his ability to create an atmosphere was something I admired in both.)

I haven't read The Nebuly Coat.
 
You should try Carnacki The Ghost Finder, by William Hope Hodgson. It's a collection of short stories about an occult detective published in 1913. For an early example of espionage adventure try The Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers published in 1903.
 
The Lost Stradivarius is in the short TBR pile (as opposed to Mount TBR in another part of the basement). I've meant to read it for years along with a couple of other books from Dover Publishing.

Randy M.
 
Since it seems there is at least some fiction in Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk, I'll suggest it for this thread.

Sławomir Rawicz - Wikipedia

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I take it that "classic adventure YARNS" does mean fiction. And I take it that "CLASSIC adventure yearns" probably means things that are old enough to be available as public domain downloads. So this book (still classed as nonfiction by publishers, at least) is probably out of bounds on two counts.

So to justify this posting, I'll add another indisputable classic adventure yarn: Masefield's Sard Harker. Someone here at Chrons has read this, if he or she is still on board, and liked it.

Sard Harker - Wikipedia

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Interesting Penguin cover design, evoking famous image of fallen soldier from the Spanish Civil War.

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Just a bit ☺
I know a man, school friend of my father's, still alive and living in San Francisco, who walked from the Ukraine to India as a very small boy with his parents and brother in the late 1940s.
 
Wow.

My dad had a buddy who drove from Spain to India. I haven't been able to find a written account of that journey.
 
I believe you, just not Slavomir's account. I have an original hard back of the book and it is a brilliant adventure story. However like so many great 'true' stories it is an amalgamation of many other true stories into one narrative.
 
The Lost Continent by C J Cutcliffe Hynd
 
Wow.

My dad had a buddy who drove from Spain to India. I haven't been able to find a written account of that journey.
My parents drove from the UK to South India in the 1960s. They got a boat home because my mother was pregnant with me. The couple they were with drove all the way back to the UK.
 
Been googling this story. Amazed to find out the author was executed as a spy!

The sad result of the Irish Civil War after independence from Britain. After Michael Collins was killed by the Anti-Treaty forces the Irish Government took on a more hard line approach. It led to execution of many former comrades in arms. Childers was one of those victims. His son later became the President of Ireland.
 
My parents drove from the UK to South India in the 1960s. They got a boat home because my mother was pregnant with me. The couple they were with drove all the way back to the UK.

Well, I may not have done anything as impressive as that! B-b-but I have read a lot of books!!
 
Isn't there a noted adventure tale in the Stevenson mode by Quiller-Couch?
 

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