The Mountain of Adventure

Mountain of Adventure is a story I read and loved as a kid, but unfortunately I forgot both the title and author. I have only just tracked these down thanks to the good folk at What's The Name of That Book group.
I have given it four stars based on my enjoyment of it as a child. Its an amazing adventure story, filled with intrigue, excitement and humour.
As an adult reader I can appreciate these elements and enjoy the story, but its hard to overlook the overt racism and sexism. I'm sure Enid Blyton was in step with her times when she wrote Mountain of Adventure in the 1940's. However it makes me feel a little sad that these features were part of what is a great adventure story, and that as a kid I accepted and believed them.
I would be show more interested to know if the sexist and racist issues have been edited out in more recent editions. If so, the result would be an almost perfect adventure story for young readers. show less

The weakest entry in the Adventure series so far.

The children travel to the Welsh mountains with Bill and Mrs. Mannering. The portrait of life at the Welsh inn was amusing, although perhaps a bit too caricature-like. Then the children depart on a donkey trek, and Blyton separates them from the adults with a couple of flimsy excuses.

At their best, Blyton's books get across the joy of the freedom the children feel when they go on holiday on their own. Some of that was present here, but perhaps not as much as in her best books.

Then the adventure was... weird. It was one of those science-fiction kind of adventure, like in the otherwise superior Five Get into a Fix, also set in the Welsh mountains. What's with Blyton and her weird idea of show more the Welsh mountains?

Anyway, the adventure itself was not bad once you get over your incredulity at the science-fiction component. The baddies' plot was silly and needlessly intricate, like always, but that never bothered me as a child so I don't let bother me now.

Enjoyable but flawed entry in the series. show less

It was very cool that this story followed closely behind the Sea Adventure one and details from the Sea Adventure were even mentioned in this story. I very much enjoyed that. I've gotten every one of her books available from the library... looking forward to reading them all :-)

Adrianne

Novels/novelettes

Match found in the German National Library.

Los amigos Mannering y Trent vuelven a estar de vacaciones y su madre, la señora Alison y Bill Smugs les llevan a una granja en plena montaña galesa. Los niños hacen una excursión en la que encuentran una misteriosa montaña en la cual suceden temblores de tierra, salidas nocturnas de perros hambrientos entra otras cosas. Descubren al causante de todos estos sucesos y con gran dificultad consiguen salir con buen pie.