19-August-2020

10 Books To Make Your Inner Adventurer Come Alive

10 Books To Make Your Inner Adventurer Come Alive

Human beings crave adventure as it leads them away from the monotony of daily life and submerges them into the unknown by making each day a unique experience. Books are little bundles of adventure that have the ability to make our imagination sore and take us to places that we could have never dreamed about. As Jon Keruoc says in On The Road, "There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars." and this list will surely ignite a passion in you that will make you explore the sky, land and sea. You will definitely not be able to put these books down till the last page as they have an innate ability to make your heart wander and your mind wonder. 

 

1. From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne

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Jules Verne was a dreamer who could make the reader fly to every corner of the earth and even over the moon. Written in 1865 with limited scientific knowledge and an impossibility to ever reach the moon, he wrote a book giving somewhat accurate calculation. The Baltimore Gun Club builds an enormous Columbiad space gun which launches three people into outer space.

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2. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

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This book is written in roman à clef where real-life events are interwoven with fiction. Jack Kerouac travels across America with his friends and becomes submerged in the beat culture full of jazz, drugs and poetry. His adventures are characterised with meeting people from all walks of society and the impact it has on him as they witness the raw shades of America which are not always glamorous. 

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3. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas tells the gripping and classic story of Edmond Dantes who is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit on an island prison Chateau d'If for 13 years. He gets to know about the hidden treasure on Isle of Monte Cristo and takes an oath to use that money to take revenge from the three people responsible for his imprisonment. A wonderful tale filled with revenge, betrayal, sword fights and love that provides wholesome entertainment. 

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4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

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Set in the nineteenth century, Huckleberry Finn is a free-spirited boy of 14 years whose guardian Widow Douglas want to civilise him which he thinks curtails his freedom. In order to escape, he decides to travel along the Mississippi River along with the slave boy Jim who is also a runaway. Together they visit many towns along the river and have various encounters with Twain projecting a strong anti-racist ideology through the book. 

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5. Moby Dick, Herman Melville

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Many critics calling it a wonderfully strange book, this story of Moby Dick sure is an imaginative piece of the highest standards. Ishmael recounts Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to find the giant whale called Moby Dick on the ship Pequod in order to take revenge for biting off his leg on a previous expedition. As Captain Ahab recruits and prepares his crew, they not only have to face a monstrous creature but also the wrath of the sea. 

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6. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

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Mowgli is a small boy who was raised primarily by wolves in the jungle and has friends who are animals. The book is a collection of stories about his adventures with his friends Baloo the bear, Kaa the python, Bagheera the black panther and more who teach him about the jungle. His enemy is the notorious Sher Khan who killed his parents and he has a showdown with him at the end. This book is a reminiscence of everyone's childhood who grew up loving all the wonderful characters created by Rudyard Kipling that are still fresh in our minds. 

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7. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne

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Verne gives major wanderlust with this book which is about Phileas Fogg a British man and his French valet Passepartout, attempted to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days on £20,000 wager in order to win a bet from the gentlemen in the Reform Club. They travel across various countries through railways and steamers and have many adventures as they witness different cultures and people. 
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8. Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson

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The book that launched a thousand similar book due to its sheer adventurous quality and also for becoming the crowning jewel in the genre. R.L. Stevenson writes an endearing tale filled with treasure maps, tropical islands, sea and pirates with parrots, this book has it all to make your heart wander off to an expedition. A young boy Jim sets out to find the coveted treasure with members of the crew which is hidden under an ‘X’ but they are not the only ones after the treasure. 

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9. Gulliver Travels, Jonathan Swift

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A staple in the adventure genre, this interesting book tells the tale of  Lemuel Gulliver who gives a detailed narrative of his extraordinary visit to isolated islands around the world. The most famous being that of Lilliput where the inhabitants are less than 15 cm tall were fights erupt due to trivial matters. His next visit is to Brobdingnag where the people are 22 metres tall and Gulliver feels like a Lilliput there. This book by Jonathan Swift has many such varied adventures which will make your imagination run wild. 

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10. Journey To the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne

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Otto Lidenbrock is a German professor who wishes to explore the centre of the Earth through volcanic tubes. He along with his nephew Alex and guide Hans descend into a volcano in Iceland which reaches to the Earth’s core. They encounter many situations that they never thought of like prehistoric creatures and a stormy sea that makes it difficult for them to return home and thus became a science fiction masterpiece that only Jules Verne imagination could create.

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By Arushi Garg (Suggest Nest)

 




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