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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/18/02, 10:43 AM

Hello,

I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot. Any
suggestions? I searched the booklist but did not see an adventure
heading/category. Other catalog and database searches keep leading me to
Juvenile and Teen material. Adults like this theme also. Thanks.

Yvette Hunt
[removed]@aol.com

FROM: Mary Dunn <[removed]@lacrosse.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 12:17 PM

"Subterranean," "Excavation," and "Deep Fathom" by James Rollins would
definitely full into the adventure novel category.

[removed]@aol.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
> Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot. Any
> suggestions? I searched the booklist but did not see an adventure
> heading/category. Other catalog and database searches keep leading me to
> Juvenile and Teen material. Adults like this theme also. Thanks.
>
> Yvette Hunt
> [removed]@aol.com
>
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FROM: Cheryl Edwards <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 1:09 PM

The Clive Cussler books featuring Dirk Pitt would be a good bet. Lots of
adventure and travel with some intriguing, if implausible, plotlines. I
also like H. Rider Haggard's novels like "She" and "King Solomon's Mines."

-Cheryl-

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 [removed]@aol.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
> Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot. Any
> suggestions? I searched the booklist but did not see an adventure
> heading/category. Other catalog and database searches keep leading me to
> Juvenile and Teen material. Adults like this theme also. Thanks.
>
> Yvette Hunt
> [removed]@aol.com
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/18/02, 2:02 PM

Some suggestions:

Clive Cussler
Wilbur Smith
Perhaps Eric Van Lusbadter?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/18/02, 2:13 PM

OK - since someone mentioned H. Rider Haggard, I reckon I'll mention H. G.
Wells (The Time Machine) and Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues under the sea, etc.)
Those who like period yarns might also want to try Rafael Sabatini (Captain
Blood, etc.) And doesn't Jurassic Park have kind of an epic feel to it?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Susan <[removed]@uia.net>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 2:45 PM

This is old but good:

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Susan

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At 11:40 AM 2/18/2002 EST, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
>Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot. Any
>suggestions?
>Yvette Hunt
[removed]@aol.com
>

FROM: "Sue Rice" <[removed]@ascpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 3:07 PM

Some of the Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child might work--I'm thinking of
"Relic" & "Thunderhead", but others might fit, too.

FROM: "Valerie Maine" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 3:49 PM

The Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child novels would be a good fit.

Riptide
Thunderhead
Ice Limit
Mount Dragon
Relic and Reliquary

Valerie Maine
Vernon Area Public Library
Lincolnshire, IL

FROM: Melissa Norton <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 7:03 PM

Books by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (THUNDERHEAD,
RIPTIDE, THE RELIC, MOUNT DRAGON, etc.)might fit the
bill for thrills and adventure.
Melissa
--- Susan <[removed]@uia.net> wrote:
> This is old but good:
>
> King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
>
> Susan
>
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>
>
>
> At 11:40 AM 2/18/2002 EST, you wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with
> adventure and travel.
> >Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and
> storyline/plot. Any
> >suggestions?
> >Yvette Hunt
> [removed]@aol.com
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 7:53 AM

>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Searching for fiction "Indiana Jones" type novels
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:40:22 EST
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
>Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot.

Does the character have to be more-or-less modern (i.e., 20th Century)?
Does he have to follow a certain profession? Must there be elements of
fantasy/occult in the story? If not, many historical novels would fit,
especially older ones--Dumas, Sabatini, "The Prisoner of Zenda," etc. I
suggest consulting the McKinley Bibliographies or McGarry & White for more
ideas.

Don't forget that there have been a whole string of original Indy novels by
divers hands. If you do an Amazon search under keyword "Indiana Jones,"
they'll come up.

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FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 11:05 AM

Allan Folsam's Day After Tomorrow - I can remeber describing the plot of this
fast paced thriller as "Indiana Jones" like; lots of improbable happenings that
the hero manages to survive but still providing a story that works in the end.

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 8:15 AM

>From: [removed]@aol.com
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>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Searching for Indiana Jones
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:54:20 EST
>
>And doesn't Jurassic Park have kind of an epic feel to it?
>
>

Almost any of Michael Crichton's novels might suit.

Then, of course, there's Edgar Rice Burroughs! Tarzan, Mars, Venus,
Pellucidar. And much sf and fantasy, of the kind that takes place either in
our present or very-near-future or some parallel-world types. C. J.
Cherryh's Morgaine Saga comes to mind. Alan Dean Foster's "Cat-a-Lyst" and
"Codgerspace."

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FROM: Melissa Sievers <[removed]@email.unc.edu>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 10:01 AM

How about The Eight by Katherine Neville?

Melissa Sievers
(current MLS student at UNC Chapel Hill)

FROM: [removed]@juno.com
REC'D: 2/19/02, 1:44 PM

Does the protagonist need to be male? What about the Joan Wilder books
Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile. Also Catherine Lanigan's The
Legend Makers. Like INdiana Jones there's adventure, romance, and that
feeling that everything is just slightly over the top.

Joyce Saricks

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and
entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
Marshall McLuhan

FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 2:26 PM

> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
> Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot. Any
> suggestions? I searched the booklist but did not see an adventure
> heading/category. Other catalog and database searches keep leading me to


Well, aside from others mentioned, I read "Link" by Walt Becker a few years
ago. It might work for this type of thing. Renegade anthropologist with wild
theories gets lead of lifetime. There's action, murder, mayhem, a love
interest, bad guys, and of course a wild outlandish thing that they're
looking for, oh yes and globe spanning. It does tend to get dragged down in
all of the *detail* (and when I say detail, I mean as in the guy did a ton
of research for the book and decided to share it *all* with us.) But it's
definately in the similar style(still got to get around to rereading it, I
never finished it and didn't get a chance to check it out again, back when I
worked in the bookstore and we were allowed to "check" out books.).

Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon-Minooka, Illinois

FROM: "Jeffrey, Denise B" <[removed]@education.tas.gov.au>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 3:43 PM

Matthew Reilly's Ice station has a very Indiana Jones theme.

An isolated Antarctic research station is attacked. There are giant seal like creatures inhabiting an underground cavern, killer whales, hostile armed forces and an abandoned station hiding a former government's secret.

His second novel, Temple, is set in the Peruvian rain forest and involves the search for a 400 year old idol based on an old manuscript. I've not read it, but it sounds like an Indiana Jones adventure.

Denise

Denise Jeffrey,
Senior Librarian (Selection),
State Library of Tasmania,
91 Murray St.,
Hobart 7000

Phone 61 3 6233 7049
Fax 61 3 6233 7506
Email [removed]@education.tas.gov.au
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/services/goodread.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Kubala [[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2002 4:55 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Searching for fiction "Indiana Jones" type novels

Allan Folsam's Day After Tomorrow - I can remeber describing the plot of this
fast paced thriller as "Indiana Jones" like; lots of improbable happenings that
the hero manages to survive but still providing a story that works in the end.

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 2/25/02, 12:16 AM

Anything by H. Rider Haggard would be worth looking at, unless the reader
is allergic to Victorian prose.

A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss" might work, too.

Thomas Hoving's "King of the Confessors" might be a good nonfiction
suggestion. It describes the author's investigation into the tangled
ownership history of a medieval ivory cross which he hopes to acquire for
a museum.

Bradley A. Scott

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/25/02, 8:43 AM

>From: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
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>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Searching for fiction "Indiana Jones" type novels
>Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:22:36 -0500
>
>A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss" might work, too.
>

Actually 'most anything of Merritt's would qualify. Also Lin Carter, who
wrote shamelessly Burroughs-esque sf (like the "Callisto" and "Zanthodon"
series). Also William L. Chester's "Kioga" duo, about an arctic "lost
world" inhabited by Native American tribes. And Edison Marshall's "Dian of
the Lost Land"--an oldie.

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FROM: "Susan T. Byra" <[removed]@emrl.lib.ms.us>
REC'D: 2/25/02, 12:05 PM

How about King Solomon's Mines? I believe the hero was Alan
Quartermain, and I know that a couple of movies with that character (and
starring Richard Chamberlain) have been produced. I read it many years
ago, but I remember it involved lost treasure and other rousing
adventures.

--
Susan T. Byra, MLS
Director, East Miss. Regional Library

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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/4/02, 9:20 AM

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>>> [removed]@aol.com 02/18/02 10:40AM >>>
Hello,

I'm searching for adult fiction novels dealing with adventure and travel.
Specifically, an "Indiana Jones" type character and storyline/plot. Any
suggestions? I searched the booklist but did not see an adventure
heading/category. Other catalog and database searches keep leading me to
Juvenile and Teen material. Adults like this theme also. Thanks.

Yvette Hunt
[removed]@aol.com

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:22 AM

I don't recall any magical idols or jungle temples in this series, but
Bernard Cornwall's series of historical military novels about Richard
Sharpe might appeal to lovers of travel and adventure. The books follow
the career of a military man who is progressively stationed in various
hot spots around the British Empire, from France to India. Most of the
books are based on actual battles or other historical events

Bradley A. Scott

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 9:42 AM

Most of the works of Talbot Mundy (his last couple, after he became
heavily involved with Theosophy, are best avoided). I'm especially
fond of THE NINE UNKNOWN; THE DEVIL'S GUARD (also published as
RAMSDEN); and JIMGRIM, but his best-remembered work is KING - OF
THE KHYBER RIFLES.

From report, the fiction of "Ganpat" (Martin Gompertz), though
I've never read him. And some of the fiction of Achmed Abdullah
(best remembered as author of THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD), ibid.

Haggard's already been mentioned, I believe, but not Harold Lamb
or H. Bedford-Jones. Edgar Wallace is best recalled today for
British crime thrillers, but his SANDERS OF THE RIVER stories
(about a heroic and much-put-upon colonial administrator in
Africa) are a lot of fun if you can overlook the political
incorrectness (which I can). Some of the works of Robert E.
Howard are also in this vein (best remembered for his creation
of Conan and other barbarian heroes, but try MARCHERS OF
VALHALLA or SOWERS OF THE THUNDER or HAWKS OF OUTREMER and
the like for (mostly) non-supernatural adventures.

In the pulp magazine era, the great source for this was
ADVENTURE MAGAZINE. There's a bit about Harold Lamb in
ADVENTURE at

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/howardaj/advent3.htm

Richard Bleiler has done a comprehensive bibliography of
ADVENTURE MAGAZINE, but first edition (in book form) is
scarce, and revised edition is out only cd-rom form (and
I don't have either):

http://www.locusmag.com/index/catalog.html

Bookdealer and author Jessica Salmonson has a lovely site at

http://www.violetbooks.com/index.html

with descriptions (and repros of art from) various of her
specialities, including "swashbucklers," some of which overlap
with Lost Race Fiction, which she covers at

http://www.violetbooks.com/lostrace-check-guide.html

Indy Jones on the outside (sometimes, anyway); amusing coward on
the inside: George MacDonald's FLASHMAN books.

Which should keep you going for a bit.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 11:17 AM

>From: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Searching for fiction "Indiana Jones" type novels
>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:31:48 -0600
>

>Bookdealer and author Jessica Salmonson has a lovely site at
>
>http://www.violetbooks.com/index.html
>
>with descriptions (and repros of art from) various of her
>specialities, including "swashbucklers," some of which overlap
>with Lost Race Fiction, which she covers at
>
>http://www.violetbooks.com/lostrace-check-guide.html
>
>

Dennis, once again you've shown yourself to be God's gift to Fiction-L!
Thank you so much for posting this! Swashbucklers, heroic fantasy, and
vintage Westerns are among my favorite kinds of books, and they're by no
means easy to find. I can see that as soon as I can afford it, JAS and I
will have a lot of dealings.

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FROM: JCURTIN <[removed]@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 11:48 AM

Subject: Re: Searching for fiction "Indiana Jones" type novels

Chiming in a bit late, and these may have been suggested. Wilbur Smith has
written achaeological
adventure novels. The two that come to mind are The Sunbird -- which also
involves re-incarnation, and The Seventh Scroll, which is a real thrill ride
and would fit the Indiana Jones prototype perfectly.

Joan Curtin

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