Classic Adventure Stories

The Lyons Press is proud to present some of the finest adventure stories ever written. Some are fictional ("The Pirate Crew Set Sail," "Youth," and "Ice Again"), some true ("Wildfowling Adventures," "Shipwreck"), but all capture the essence of adventure, the sheer excitement that comes with a gripping yarn well told.

Featured in CLASSIC ADVENTURE STORIES are some of the finest authors ever to put pen to paper, including:

Joseph Conrad
Alfred H. Miles
Stephen Crane
Mark Twain
John S. Sewall
Richard Henry Dana
Francis Parkman, Jr.
Frederic Remington
W.H. Hudson
Rudyard Kipling
Peter Collinson (Dashiell Hammett)
Herman Melville
Captain James Riley
Homer
Anthony Hope
(from The Prisoner Of Zenda)
Lieutenant R. E. Perry, USN
Jules Verne
O. Henry
Ernest Shackleton
Julius A. Palmer
Jack London
Robert Louis Stevenson
And more