Joseph Bristow

O generally like adventure stories, but I found this selection very unsatisfying overall, though some individual pieces were good. Twain's quasi-autobiographical piece is more self-deprecating humor than adventure, and some of the others are too downbeat for my tastes, including Tigre and Aepyornis Island. and The Grove of Ashtaroth (and usually I like Buchan, but this is more occult than adventure, and sad too) and Octopussy.. If you named the authors, I would like most of them but not show more these stories. show less

Joseph Bristow brings together twenty-three riveting tales, penned by such masters as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Zane Gray, but with notable contributions from such unexpected sources as Margaret Atwood, Tim O'Brien, and Daphne Du Maurier.

Here readers will find bravery and boldness in settings that range from desert islands to the Java Sea, from war-torn Europe to deepest Africa, and from India to the Canadian wastes. Bristow offers many classic works of show more adventure, such as Edgar Allan Poe's MS Found in a Bottle, Mark Twain's The Private History of a Campaign that Failed, and Joseph Conrad's The Lagoon. Along side these, he also includes Margaret Atwood's offbeat Death by Landscape and Tim O'Brien's On the Rainy River (where the adventure lies in dodging the draft as opposed to going to war). show less