Adventure stories
By: chosen by Clive King ; illustrated by Brian Walker.
Contributors: King, Clive.; Walker, Brian, 1926-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Story library
Publisher: Kingfisher Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Children's stories
Description: An illustrated collection of adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors, including Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain.
Table of contents: title: Golden apples of the sun / Ray Bradbury; title: Pollux boxes with King Amycus / Robert Graves; title: Sir Bors fights for a lady / Rosemary Sutcliff; title: Prisoner of Zenda / Anthony Hope; title: Shane / Jack Schaefer; title: Pony express / Robin May; title: Dolphin crossing / Jill Paton Walsh; title: Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing; title: Boy Blue the crab-catcher / George Lamming; title: Lost in the caves / Mark Twain; title: Factory / Paul Berna; title: Sound of propellers / Clive King; title: Albeson and the Germans / Jan Needle; title: Tschiffely's ride / A.F. Tschiffely; title: Dorobo / Elspeth Huxley; title: White Fang / Jack London; title: Leopard hunt / Prince Modupe; title: Leopard / Ruskin Bond; title: Amy Johnson, queen of the air / Gordon Snell; title: No picnic on Mount Kenya / Felice Benuzzi; title: Bicycles up Kilimanjaro / Richard Crane and Nicholas Crane.