Jungles, deserts, and lost worlds

14 books

Allan QuatermainH. Rider Haggard · 1887An 1887 adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, this sequel to King Solomon's Mines follows hunter Allan Quatermain who, grieving the loss of his son in England, returns to Africa with companions seeking the wilderness once more.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Colonial Born: A Tale of the Queensland bushG. Firth Scott · 1900A 1900 illustrated adventure novel by G. Firth Scott set in the Queensland bush, telling the story of a solitary, slow-spoken selector whose marriage to an immigrant hotel girl brings unexpected changes to his life at Taylor's Flat.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Five Weeks in a Balloon Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three EnglishmenJules Verne · 1863An 1863 adventure novel by Jules Verne, translated into English, in which Dr. Samuel Ferguson and two companions travel across Africa by balloon, surveying its geography, peoples, and wildlife while facing a series of hazards during their five-week voyage.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Jungle Tales of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1919A 1919 collection of short jungle adventure stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, following Tarzan, the ape-raised English nobleman who does not know his own origin. The tales center on his life among the apes, including his rivalry with Taug over the she-ape Teeka.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

KimRudyard Kipling · 1901A 1901 novel by Rudyard Kipling set in British India, following Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned Irish boy raised on the streets of Lahore, who becomes the companion of a Tibetan lama traveling to see Buddhism's holy places.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard · 1885An 1885 adventure novel narrated by Allan Quatermain, a hunter and trader in Natal, who recounts an expedition with Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good across a desert into Kukuanaland in search of the legendary mines of King Solomon.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Prester JohnJohn Buchan · 1910A 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan following a young Scottish narrator from boyhood in a seaside town to involvement with a mysterious black clergyman and a legend of treasure and empire in southern Africa.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tarzan and the Jewels of OparEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1918An adventure novel from 1918, this book follows Tarzan as he returns to the lost city of Opar, whose treasure attracts thieves, including a disgraced Belgian officer who joins an Arab raider plotting against him.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tarzan of the ApesEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1912A 1912 adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs in which an English nobleman and his young wife, shipwrecked on the African coast, face mutiny at sea and an uncertain fate in the jungle.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tarzan the TerribleEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1921A 1921 adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs in which Tarzan journeys alone through an unexplored prehistoric land of strange creatures, searching for his wife Jane, who was taken into the African interior and has since disappeared.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tarzan the UntamedEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1919An adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1919, in which Tarzan returns to his East African home during World War I to find it destroyed by German soldiers, setting him on a journey of vengeance through the jungle.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Beasts of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1916Adventure novel from 1916, the third Tarzan book by Edgar Rice Burroughs. When his enemy Nikolas Rokoff escapes prison and kidnaps Tarzan's infant son, the ape-man pursues the villains, leading to maroonment and perils among beasts on a jungle island.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Return of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1913An adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1913, following Tarzan as he leaves civilization aboard an ocean liner bound for Africa, becoming entangled in intrigue and eventually returning to the jungle of his birth.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Son of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1915An adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1915, continuing the Tarzan series. It follows the escape of the broken villain Alexis Paulvitch from Africa with an ape and events involving Tarzan's son.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية