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During the 70 years of the Victorian era, the British Empire nearly quadrupled its territory, exploring the interior of Africa and Pacific islands and colonizing Asian nations one after another. Against this backdrop, British people held an unprecedented strong interest in the world. The blossoming of adventure stories that responded to boys' longings for and interest in the unknown was inextricably linked to the extension of the British government's imperialist policy that bolstered hope and confidence in Great Britain as an invincible state<ref>[http://www.kodomo.go.jp/ingram/e/section4/index.html Birth of Adventure Novels] from “Chilldren’s Books in The Victorian Era from the Winnington-Ingram Collection”</ref>
This category of literature continued to be popular through the Edwardian and later years.
This article is generally in respect of adventure stories for younger readers, written by authors such as George Manville Fenn, G A Henty, Herbert Strong and Percy F. Westerman.
==Also see==
*[[Talbot Mundy]] who wrote adventure stories for adults.
==External links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Manville_Fenn George Manville Fenn]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._A._Henty G. A. Henty]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Strang Herbert Strang]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_F._Westerman Percy F. Westerman] Wikipedia
===Historical books online===
====Military Campaigns====
Arranged according to the chronological dates of the campaigns.
=====3rd Carnatic War=====
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16382 ''In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India''] by Herbert Strang . Also published with the title [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41489 ''One of Clive's Heroes: A Story of the Fight for India''] by Herbert Strang 1938 reprint, first published 1906. gutenberg.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
=====2nd Maratha War=====
*[https://archive.org/details/atpointofbayonet00hentuoft ''At the Point of the Bayonet, a Tale of the Mahratta War''] by GA G A Henty 1902 Archive.org
=====1st Burma War=====
*[https://archive.org/details/youngcadetorhenr00hofl ''The Young Cadet, or, Henry Delamere's Voyage to India : with his travels in Hindostan, and his account of the Burmese War and the wonders of Elora''] by Mrs Hofland, 1831 Archive.org. Note: Missing [https://archive.org/stream/youngcadetorhen00bargoog#page/n221/mode/1up final 2 pages] (from another digital file).
=====3rd China War=====
*[https://archive.org/details/withalliestopek00pagegoog ''With The Allies To Pekin: a Tale of the Relief of the Legations''] by G A Henty 1904. An adventure story for younger readers. Archive.org
=====First World War=====
*Western Front adventure stories for younger readers by Herbert Strang. gutenberg.org..
:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39150 ''A Hero of Liége: A Story of the Great War''] 1914.
:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39801 ''Fighting with French: A Tale of the New Army''] 1915.
:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41737 ''Burton of the Flying Corps'']. 1916
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36500 ''The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War''] By Percy F Westerman 1915 Gutenberg.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241464 ''Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter''] by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in ''The Camels Are Coming'' (1932) and two of which were originally published in ''Biggles Of The Camel Squadron'' (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states “The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised''.
*Gallipoli
**[https://archive.org/details/fightforconstant00westiala ''The Fight for Constantinople : a Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula''] by Percy F Westerman. Catalogued 1915. Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11513 ''On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles''] by T C Bridges c 1915. Gutenberg.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42943 ''Frank Forester: A Story of the Dardanelles''] by Herbert Strang 1915 Gutenberg.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
*East Africa
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26642 ''Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force''] by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrator Ernest Prater. 1918 gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/wilmshurstofthef26642gut Archive.org version]
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39912 ''Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa''] by Herbert Strang. Illustrator Wal Paget. 1919 gutenberg.org.
==== General====
Arranged by date of publication
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000041D18 ''The Orchid of Fô; or, a Tale from Burma'']. By S. C. M. 1896 British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/dacoitstreasureo00mooriala ''The Dacoit's Treasure, or, In the Days of Po Thaw : a Story of Adventure in Burma''] by Henry Charles Moore c 1897 Archive.org. With illustrations.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/drawswordsinhors00fenn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Draw swords! : In the Horse Artillery''] by George Manville Fenn 1898. Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers about a young officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery, with 8 illustrations.
*[https://archive.org/details/bearsdacoitsothe00hentiala ''Bears and Dacoits and Other Stories''] by G A Henty c 1901. Archive.org. Includes "Bears and Dacoits. A Tale of the Ghauts".
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42417 ''The Air Patrol: A Story of the North-West Frontier''] by Herbert Strang 1913. Gutenberg.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
==References==
