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Subject - Adventure
Need some adventure in your life? Get lost in one of these!
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The Marvelous Munchausen
by William Rose Benét
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The Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll
an unlikely cadre team-up in search of the elusive snark
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Lepanto
by G. K. Chesterton
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Marco Bozzaris
by Fitz-Greene Halleck
a brave Greek Chieftain leads his band in a night attack
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Gunga Din
by Rudyard Kipling
this regimental water boy is a better man that most
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The Vision of Sir Launfal
by James Russell Lowell
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The Battle of Naseby
by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Oh, evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit,
And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod;
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A Wanderer's Song
by John Masefield
he craves to be at sea
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The Man from Snowy River
by Andrew Barton Paterson
an unassuming mountain horseman rounds-up a wayward herd of wild bush horses
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel
by Sir Walter Scott
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The Spell of the Yukon
by Robert W. Service
a desolate place made beautiful
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The Rover
by Robert W. Service
Oh but it is good to be
Foot-loose and heart-free!
Yet how good it is to come
Home at last, home, home!
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The Lifeboat
by George R. Sims
We launched the boat in the tempest, though death was the goal in view
And never a one but doubted if the craft could live it through;
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