Adventure and Adventurers - Being True Tales of Daring Peril & Heroism. Decorative cover design. Published in 1895.
Hardback book with a collection of stories which are rather outdated being Victorian hunting stories as well as war and mountain climbing.
Chapters titled South African Hunters, Pioneers & Explorers : Mountain-Climbers & Mountain Climbing : Faimali, The Lion-Tamer : My First Chamois : The Ironclad Bushrangers : A Secret of the Soloman Islands : Afloat in the 'Rob Roy' Canoe : At The World's End With George Borrow : Sir William Phips 7 the Sunken Treasure of Port De La Plata : Storming of Badajoz-The Horrors of War : A Real Romance of the South Seas : A Strange Escape : Twenty-Five Degrees Below Zero on Lake Winnipeg : A Frenchman's Account of the Battle of Trafalgar : Escape of Some English Prisoners from France : Paul Jones in the Firth of Forth.
Please note this is a vintage book with flaws, or characteristics of it's previous journeys across bookshelves, depending on how you think of it. Study the photographs to help understand the condition of this book and if you have any questions please get in touch.