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Winner of the U.S. National Book Award for 1939 Nonfiction. [7] Saint-Exupéry only received the prize in early 1942, as he had been flying as a reconnaissance pilot during the Battle of France when the award was announced earlier. [1] [N 1] The National Geographic ADVENTURE voted the book No. 3 in its all-time list of 100 best adventure ...
The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging authors. [1] The following are a few of the individuals who contributed to the list. Authors (fiction)
These adventure books are great for those who love travel and the great outdoors. Picks like ‘Wild’ by Cheryl Strayed and ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ by Nathaniel Philbrick are examples.
Men's adventure is a genre of magazine that was published in the United States from the 1940s until the early 1970s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured pin-up girls and lurid tales of adventure that typically were promoted as true stories narrated in first-person by the participants or in an 'as told to' style.
The series Little Stories of Great Lives was edited by Herbert Strang and written for young children. The books are printed with large type and wide margins on good paper. The cover of each book contains a coloured portrait of the subject, and there are numerous black-and-white illustrations inside. The stories in the series include: [5]
Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of over thirty science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ("Senior") novels. The series was titled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures .
Phoenix Force is a series of men's action-adventure novels published from 1982 to 1991 and spanning 55 novels (and several anthologized short stories), following the exploits of the five-man, anti-terrorist team Phoenix Force. There were 51 novels in the Phoenix Force series, plus 4 Super Phoenix Force special editions.
Perhaps you have the sudden urge to live vicariously through fictional heroes as they travel through time and space. Or maybe you're in the mood for a magical tale that'll spark your imagination ...