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Book cover: HuntingtowerHuntingtower
by - Doran ,
Dickson McCunn has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero ...
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Book cover: Sick Heart RiverSick Heart River
by - Hodder & Stoughton ,
Edward Leithen is given a year to live. Fearing he will die unfulfilled, he devotes his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker. Galliard is in remotest Canada searching for the River of the Sick Heart.
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Book cover: A Lodge in the WildernessA Lodge in the Wilderness
by - W. Blackwood and Sons ,
A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906) is a quasi-novel about an imaginary conference arranged by a multi-millionaire, Francis Carey, at a lodge, Musuru, located on the East Kenyan Plateau some 9000 feet above sea level, to discuss Empire ...
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Book cover: The Three HostagesThe Three Hostages
by - Feedbooks ,
Hannay is living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few clues, Hannay must track down the dastardly villains ...
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Book cover: The Power-HouseThe Power-House
by - Houghton Mifflin ,
When his friend vanishes, Sir Edward Leithen is at first only mildly concerned. But a series of strange events that follow the disappearance convince Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society. Their codename is 'The Power-House'.
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Book cover: Salute to AdventurersSalute to Adventurers
by - ManyBooks ,
A novel set during the beginning of the Jamestown Colony, a saga about one man's struggle to survive and even find love in a land beset by trade controls with England enforced by pirates, religious strife, harsh environmental conditions, and more.
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Book cover: Prester JohnPrester John
by - Thomas Nelson ,
Prester John, set more than a century ago in backwater South Africa, is the great grandfather of today's thrillers. A young hero confronts a massive uprising by tribesmen who wish to slaughter all the white settlers for a hundred miles around.
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Book cover: The House of the Four WindsThe House of the Four Winds
by ,
A group of English and Scottish travelers become deeply involved in the machinations of three warring parties in an imaginary principality on the edge of the Tyrol. Adventure - romance - humor - good summer entertainment.
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Book cover: GreenmantleGreenmantle
by ,
This is a classic tale of espionage and adventure. Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe on the trail of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He moves in disguise through Germany to the Russian border in order to face his enemies.
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Book cover: The Thirty-Nine StepsThe Thirty-Nine Steps
by - Grosset & Dunlap ,
Buchan's best-known thriller (made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock). He introduces here his most popular hero, Richard Hannay, who is an ordinary fellow caught up in the dangerous and dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.
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