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Oh, the Places You'll Go! Dr. Seuss · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate In this joyous ode to life, Dr. Seuss addresses graduates of all ages, from nursery school to medical school, and gives them the get-up-and-go to move mountains with the unrivaled exuberance and charm that have made Dr. Seuss's books favorites for years. Shares: Community pick

Men of Men Wilbur Smith · 1981 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This vivid historical novel is the second of the Ballantyne sequence of four books about the origins of Rhodesia and its later violent transformation into Zimbabwe. During the reign of Queen Victoria Englishmen answering the call of Empire voyaged out to take possession of half their known world. Their leaders were such men as Cecil Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson and Zouga Ballantyne. Some of… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Tuareg Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa · 1981 · ★ 4.3 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Los tuareg constituyen un pueblo altivo cuyo código moral difiere del de los árabes. Auténticos hijos del desierto, los tuareg no tienen rival en cuanto a sobrevivir en las condiciones más adversas. El noble inmouchar Gacel Sayah, protagonista de esta novela, es amo absoluto de una infinita extensión de desierto. Cierto día llegan al campamento dos fugitivos procedentes del norte, y el inmouchar,… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Tarzan the Untamed (Book #7) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1920 · ★ 4.3 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:Hauptmann Fritz Schneider trudged wearily through the somber aisles of the dark forest. Sweat rolled down his bullet head and stood upon his heavy jowls and bull neck. His lieutenant marched beside him while Underlieutenant von Goss brought up the rear, following with a handful of askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters whom the black soldiers, following the example of their… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Tarzan the Terrible (#8) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1921 · ★ 4.5 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Tarzan's search for Jane takes him to the warlike Pal-U-Don. Shares: Africa, Adventure

Allan and the Holy Flower H. Rider Haggard · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Challenging I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character that I think its details should not be lost. At least I will set them down, and if in the after days anyone cares to publish them, well he is at liberty to do… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1916 · ★ 3.9 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Challenging From the book:Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Congo Michael Crichton · 1980 · ★ 3.6 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines,… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates… Shares: Treasure troves, Adventure

Holes Louis Sachar · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp… Shares: Treasure troves, Adventure

The Beasts of Tarzan (Classic Ace SF, F-203) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1914 · ★ 3.7 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The Beasts of Tarzan, the third book in the Tarzan series, was first published in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914. It was later published as a novel in 1916. Tarzan’s old enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, escapes prison and plans his revenge by kidnapping the Tarzan’s son, the heir of Greystoke. He also captures Tarzan and Jane, and takes them all back to Africa, where he strands the Ape-man on an… Shares: Africa, Adventure

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares: Adventure

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares: Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares: Adventure

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped the English defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his ruthless half-brother and seeks refuge in the Middle East, where he takes on a new role as a Barbary pirate. Shares: Africa, Adventure

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912 · ★ 3.9 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Set amidst the vibrant colors and sounds of the savage African jungle, this classic work, rich in suspense and action, has beckoned generations of readers on a glorious journey to romance and pure adventure. This is the story of the ape-man Tarzan, raised in the wild by the great ape Kala, and how he learns the secrets of the jungle to survive -- how to talk with the animals, swing through the… Shares: Africa, Adventure

The Adventures of Captain Horn Frank R. Stockton · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner Castor, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm, which rose with frightful suddenness, was of short duration, but it left the Castor a helpless wreck. Her masts had snapped off and gone overboard, her rudder-post had been shattered by falling wreckage, and she was rolling in the… Shares: Treasure troves, Adventure

The gorilla hunters Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1858 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Three English boys, shipwrecked on a deserted island, create an idyllic society despite typhoons, sharks, wild hogs, and hostile visitors, and then pirates kidnap one of the boys, whose adventures continue among the South Sea Islands. Shares: Africa, Adventure

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