In adventure novels an unusual event or a series of unusual and dangerous events happen to the protagonist. A fast pace is an important factor in an adventure novel and the danger is the focus of the story, almost a character in itself. The genre has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks, with heroes such as Odysseus facing peril after peril. It endured throughout the middle ages in tales of knights and dragons, and entered the modern age in espionage novels, the James Bond series for example or The 39 Steps. Science fiction has also seen many an adventure novel, and stories of war are also a common backdrop for adventure. So too are fantasy worlds inhabited by monsters and sorcerers!
Our quiz on adventure novels will test your knowledge of the great writers in this genre. You will find questions on many exhilarating reads including Robinson Crusoe, Lorna Doone, Treasure Island, The Call of the Wild, Beau Geste and The Guns of Navarone.
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The book Force 10 From Navarone follows the events of the film adaptation of The Guns of Navarone rather than the book, although it is written by the same author
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The phrase 'beau geste' is French for gracious gesture
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The book tells the story of the Seagrave family who are shipwrecked and survive on a desert island thanks to the help they get from Masterman Ready
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It's Blind Pew who gives it to him
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The heroes are in Scotland to observe the ray
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Its subtitle is: A Romance of Exmoor
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He turns out to be working for the Germans
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The full title of the book is: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates
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The book is about three boys stranded on an island and was the inspiration for William Golding's Lord of the Flies written 100 years later
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Buck is a St. Bernard-Scotch Collie cross
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