1. My recommendations of great adventure novels that all boys should read. These books will instill in them a love of travel, a sense of daring, a respect for tradition, and a boldness of nerve. It will also impart a lifetime love of reading. So here we go.
2. H. Rider Haggard:

King Solomon's Mines (This book changed the course of my life)

She

Allan Quatermain
3. H.G. Wells:

The Time Machine

The Invisible Man
4. Robert Louis Stevenson:

Treasure Island

Kidnapped
5. Arthur Conan Doyle:

The Lost World
6. Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall

Mutiny on the Bounty

Men Against The Sea

Pitcairn's Island
7. Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Around The World In 80 Days
8. Herman Melville:

Typee

Redburn
9. James Fenimore Cooper

Last of the Mohicans

Deerslayer

Pathfinder
10. Daniel Defoe:

Robinson Crusoe
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