These free adventure books in PDF take you from Treasure Island to the Antarctic ice. Start with the classics of Robert Louis Stevenson, then follow the real explorers who lived the adventure.
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe opened the door to the genre in 1719. Here it sits next to the true stories of shipwrecks, mutinies and polar journeys that inspired novels like it.
Pirate history and short stories round out the list, with Jack London's "To Build a Fire" among them. Pick a book and start reading in seconds.
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Classics
Classic Adventure Books
These classic adventure books defined the genre, from Dumas and his musketeers to Verne's Nautilus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rider Haggard and Stevenson complete the shelf.
A young Spaniard sets out for university and lands among robbers, quacks and courtiers instead. Smollett's lively translation of the picaresque classic that shaped the adventure novel.
D'Artagnan rides to Paris and joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis in duels, intrigues and a race to save the queen's honor. The swashbuckling classic in the William Robson translation.
Shipwrecked alone on a remote island, Crusoe builds a shelter, tames goats and survives 28 years before rescue. The castaway story that started it all.
Kidnapped as a child, Bob Singleton crosses Africa on foot and later turns pirate on the high seas. Defoe's rough, fast-moving tale of mutiny and treasure.
Allan Quatermain leads a desperate trek across desert and mountains in search of a lost brother and a legendary diamond mine. The book that launched the lost-world genre.
Lemuel Gulliver sails to the land of tiny Lilliputians, a kingdom of giants, a flying island and a country ruled by horses. Adventure and sharp satire in one voyage.
Professor Aronnax is captured by Captain Nemo and carried around the world aboard the Nautilus. Verne's undersea journey through coral forests, sunken Atlantis and the polar ice.
A professor, his nephew and an Icelandic guide climb down an extinct volcano and find an underground sea and prehistoric creatures. Verne at his most imaginative.
Tom Sawyer skips school, runs off to be a pirate, witnesses a murder and hunts for buried treasure along the Mississippi. Twain's timeless boyhood adventure.
An aging gentleman reads too many tales of chivalry and rides out as a knight errant, with the loyal Sancho Panza at his side. Both parts of the first great modern novel.
David Balfour returns in this sequel to Kidnapped, risking his life to save an innocent man from the gallows and falling for the fiery Catriona Drummond.
Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a remote South American plateau where dinosaurs and ape-men still survive. Conan Doyle's thrilling scientific adventure.
Orphaned in the African jungle and raised by apes, Tarzan grows into a legend of strength until the outside world finds him. The first book of the series.
An Englishman on holiday is the double of Ruritania's drugged king and must take his place on the throne. Royal intrigue, swordplay and a classic swashbuckler.
These exploration books are first-hand accounts by Shackleton, Scott, Matthew Henson and Lewis and Clark. Real maps, real risks and places almost nobody had seen.
Shackleton's own account of the Endurance, crushed by Antarctic ice, and the 800-mile open-boat journey that saved every man. Includes Frank Hurley's expedition photographs.
The journals Captain Scott kept on his race to the South Pole, written until his final days in the tent. One of the most moving records of exploration ever published.
Matthew Henson, Peary's partner on the 1909 North Pole expedition, tells his own story of sledging across the Arctic ice. A first-hand account by a pioneer of polar exploration.
The day-by-day journals of the Corps of Discovery as it crossed the American West to the Pacific and back. Rivers, mountains, encounters and hardships, in the explorers' own words.
Darwin's five-year voyage around the world, from the Andes and Patagonia to the Galapagos Islands. The travel journal that set him on the path to the theory of evolution.
Stanley's march into Central Africa in search of the missing Dr. Livingstone, ending with the most famous greeting in exploration history. Abridged edition.
The Venetian merchant's journey across Asia to the court of Kublai Khan, with tales of Persia, China and the Indies. A compact, readable edition of the medieval travel classic.
Every true survival story here actually happened, told by the people who lived it. Whale attacks, mutinies and months adrift at sea, from the Essex to the Bounty.
Set adrift by mutineers in a small boat, Captain Bligh and 18 loyal men sailed 3,600 miles across the Pacific to safety. Bligh's own account, with charts.
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set out in a rebuilt oyster boat and became the first person to sail single-handed around the globe. Witty, practical and full of storms.
A Harvard student signs on as a common sailor and rounds Cape Horn to California. A true account of brutal discipline, gales and life at sea in the 1830s.
Taken captive during King Philip's War in 1676, Mary Rowlandson survived 11 weeks of forced marches through the New England winter. A landmark first-person survival narrative.
Forget the movie version of pirate adventure. These chronicles of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and the Caribbean buccaneers were written while the legends were still fresh.
The 1724 chronicle of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, written while their crews still sailed. The main source behind our image of the pirate.
Eyewitness accounts of Henry Morgan's raids on Panama and Porto Bello, plus the lives of Captain Kidd and other marooners. Edited by Howard Pyle, with illustrations.
Authentic narratives of the most famous sea robbers, from the Vikings to Lafitte and Captain Kidd. The illustrated 1837 bestseller that collected pirate history for a wide audience.
Fact, fancy and history of the buccaneers of the Spanish Main, gathered with the paintings that defined how pirates look. A must for anyone who loves the golden age of piracy.
A big-game hunter falls overboard near a mysterious Caribbean island and becomes the prey of a man who hunts humans. One of the most famous adventure stories ever written.
Four shipwrecked men fight the waves in a tiny dinghy within sight of shore. Crane based this story on his own survival after the sinking of the Commodore.
Allan Quatermain's early adventures in southern Africa, from hunting trips to a deadly bargain, plus three more tales by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
Conan Doyle's pirate stories follow the cruel Captain Sharkey and other rogues of the Caribbean. Short, sharp tales of the sea from the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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