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.
Since it seems there is at least some fiction in Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk, I'll suggest it for this thread.
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.Just a bit ☺
For an early example of espionage adventure try The Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers published in 1903.
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.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.
Been googling this story. Amazed to find out the author was executed as a spy!
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.
Me too.Well, I may not have done anything as impressive as that! B-b-but I have read a lot of books!!