The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories

By: Joseph Bristow (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 February 1996

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When we think of adventure we envision feats of derring-do, perilous journeys into the remote wilderness, swashbuckling deeds on the high seas, and survival in the face of impossible odds. Now, in a collection that challenges our very notion of adventure, Joseph Bristow brings together twenty-three riveting tales, penned by such masters as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Zane Gray, but with notable contributions from such unexpected sources as Margaret Atwood, Tim O'Brien, and Daphne Du Maurier.
Here readers will find bravery and boldness in settings that range from desert islands to the Java Sea, from war-torn Europe to deepest Africa, and from India to the Canadian wastes. Bristow offers many classic works of adventure, such as Edgar Allan Poe's MS Found in a Bottle, Mark Twain's The Private History of a Campaign that Failed, and Joseph Conrad's The Lagoon. Along side these, he also includes Margaret Atwood's offbeat Death by Landscape and Tim O'Brien's On the Rainy River (where the adventure lies in dodging the draft as opposed to going to war).
An exhilarating collection of classic and contemporary tales, The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories is sure to amuse, intrigue, captivate, and challenge every lover of fiction.

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Introduction
MS Found in a Bottle (1833)	p. 1
A Hazard of the North (1882)	p. 11
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed (1884)	p. 33
A Tale of Three Lions (1889)	p. 51
The Isle of Voices (1893)	p. 78
The Man-Eater of the Terai (1894)	p. 97
The Red Stockade (1894)	p. 108
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes (1895)	p. 123
Aepyornis Island (1898)	p. 143
The Lagoon (1898)	p. 154
All Gold Canyon (1905)	p. 167
The Grove of Ashtaroth (1910)	p. 186
The Fiend of the Cooperage (1912)	p. 208
The Follower (1915)	p. 220
Tigre (1923)	p. 227
Hatteras (1925)	p. 242
Thunder over Germany: A 'Biggles' Adventure (1947)	p. 263
Truth Is Stranger (1949)	p. 284
A Distant Episode (1950)	p. 301
The Chamois (1959)	p. 313
Octopussy (1966)	p. 342
On the Rainy River (1990)	p. 369
Death by Landscape (1991)	p. 385
Notes	p. 401
Publisher's Acknowledgements	p. 411
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