Popular European Adventure Books
Find adventure books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (50)
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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together . . . and all Hell breaks loose.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad EN
UkraineDescription:
In this reprinting of the great Conrad classic, Green Integer presents his tale of white colonialism and the effects of the African world on European self-satisfaction. Marlow's tale of his voyage through the Congo and the legends surround a previous explorer-adventurer named Kurtz gradually reveal the dark horros of both the Western impact on Africa and its effects on Western civilisation. Conrad's tale is a brilliant symbolic work as well as a great adventure story. The book, one of the true classics of 20th century literature endures as a favourite to this day.
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Heidi : (fetiţa munţilor) by Johanna Spyri RO
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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High Albania by Mary Edith Durham EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"High Albania is a passionate and flamboyant account of life in the formidable mountainous terrain of Northern Albania. Travelling throughout the Balkans for seven years - particularly in Albania with which she became intrigued - Durham cut a strange figure in her 'waterproof Burberry skirt' and 'Scotch plaid golf cape', but she won the people's trust, respect and affection and was called 'The Queen of the Mountain People'."--BOOK JACKET.
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GermanyDescription:
Cornelia Funke, the enormously talented author of the international best-seller THE THIEF LORD, brings readers another spellbinding tale of adventure and magic. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret-- he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character and what does he want? Suddenly Meggie is involved in a breathless game of escape and intrigue as her father's life is put in danger. Will she be able to save him in time?
Belarus17.
Kon-Tiki : Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl EN
NorwayDescription:
The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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GreeceDescription:
La guerre de Troie est terminée depuis dix ans, mais Ulysse n'est toujours pas rentré chez lui. Poursuivi par la haine de Poséidon, il erre à travers les mers avec ses compagnons. Sur son chemin, il affronte toutes sortes d'épreuves : terribles tempêtes, sirènes ensorceleuses et sanguinaires cyclopes. Le héros aux mille ruses réussira-t-il à regagner le rivage d'Ithaque et à retrouver Pénélope, son épouse ? Des questionnaires progressifs de compréhension et d'analyse du texte ; Des exercices de lecture d'images ; Des exercices de vocabulaire à partir de champs lexicaux ; Des travaux d'écriture... continue
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La felicidad es un té contigo by Mamen Sánchez ES
SpainDescription:
La inexplicable desaparición del gentleman Atticus Craftsman en el corazón de las tinieblas de la España profunda parece estar relacionada con las malas artes de cinco mujeres desesperadas, las empleadas de la revista Librarte, capaces de cualquier cosa con tal de conservar su trabajo. El inspector Manchego será el encargado de desenredar una trama en la que la comedia romántica se mezcla con el drama más tierno, la intriga policiaca desemboca en el mayor hallazgo literario de todos los tiempos, lo más difícil se vuelve fácil y los problemas se ahogan en un mar de lágrimas... de risa. Todo est... continue
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Description:
Yann Martel's beloved Life of Pi-- recently made into a stunning 3D film directed by Ang Lee-- is now available in a deluxe pocket edition with leatherette cover.