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Adventurers Books
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by (shelved 17 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,175,682 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 15 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,005,041 ratings — published 1876

by (shelved 11 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,110 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 9 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.05 — 140,154 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 8 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.01 — 159,635 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 8 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.90 — 108,377 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 7 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.06 — 142,408 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 7 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.08 — 94,767 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 6 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.07 — 232,525 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 5 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.14 — 97,097 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 5 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,828,793 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,567 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.62 — 65 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,645 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,072 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.66 — 185 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.05 — 63,625 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 4 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.10 — 421,896 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,164 ratings — published

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,308 ratings — published 1922

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,990 ratings — published 1955

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,275 ratings — published 1952

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,056 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,801 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,413 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.65 — 660 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.46 — 159,042 ratings — published 1959

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,431 ratings — published 1988

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.45 — 55,916 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.60 — 526 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 3 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.85 — 73,769 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,438 ratings — published 1941

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,592 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.59 — 79 ratings — published 1976

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,129 ratings — published 1930

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.00 — 953 ratings — published 1951

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,388 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.93 — 61,864 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.97 — 87 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,092,784 ratings — published 1950

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.87 — 929,097 ratings — published 1955

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.90 — 83,308 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,213 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,351 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,490 ratings — published 1977

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,515 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,349 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 3.55 — 59,494 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,668 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 2 times as adventurers)
avg rating 4.07 — 439,868 ratings — published 1998
“It is the foot-loose, those who have nothing to lose and much to gain, and (quite naturally) those who have not scrupulously kept all the laws—or who have felt the heavy hand of church discipline--who are most attracted to a new frontier. The first miners in California, the debtors sent to Georgia, the 'criminals' deported to Australia, were likewise held in scorn by upright stay-at-homes. What they made of themselves, and what their sons became, indicate that, for all the hard things said about them, they were hardly 'the scum of the nation.”
― Scotch-Irish: A Social History
― Scotch-Irish: A Social History
“..high resolution and a faith equal to belief in the liquefaction of St. Januarius’ blood are needs to drop the protective routine of years, to sheer off the dear and warm entanglements of home and friendships; to shut the front door one bleak winter evening when the hiuse smells comfortable and secure, and the light on the hearth, under such circumstances, is ironic in its bright revelation of years of ease and stability till then not fully appraised;”
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