Contents : A Chronicle of the Voyages of Saint Brendan / Stephen Brennan --
Jonah / King James Bible --
Book XII of the Odyssey / Homer --
Northmen Voyage to Vinland / Icelandic Sagas --
Drake's Circumnavigation / Richard Hakluyt --
The First Lowering / Herman Melville --
The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell --
A Nightmare of the Doldrums / W. Clark Russell --
The Stowaways / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The Seed of McCoy / Jack London --
Tarzan of the Apes / Edgar Rice Burroughs --
Charles Darwin and the Galápagos / V. W. von Hagen --
Florence Nightingale in Egypt / Florence Nightingale --
The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight / Lincoln Ellsworth --
Three Months in an Uninhabited Land / Sven Hedin --
A Wolf-Hunt in Wisconsin / J. E. Chamberlin --
Shipwreck / Captain James Riley --
The Open Boat / Stephen Crane --
The "Sholah" Tiger / Henrietta A. Hervey --
Ice Again! / Richard Henry Dana Jr. --
African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt --
Stanley's Last Great Expedition / Hon. J. T. Headley --
The Feud of the Wild-Haymen / Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen --
Down Through Italy by Rail / Mark Twain --
Fighting the Elephant / George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Cavelier de La Salle / Francis Parkman --
Boswell and Johnson in the Hebrides / James Boswell --
An Outpost of Progress / Joseph Conrad --
South Coast Discovery, 1801 / Earnest Scott --
Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake / Charles Darwin --
The Famous Perry Expedition to Japan / John S. Sewall --
The Travels of Marco Polo / Marco Polo --
The Town-Ho's Story / Herman Melville --
The Pirate Crew Set Sail / Mark Twain --
In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear / Jules Verne --
Among the Crocodiles / H. Hervey --
Hippo Hunting in Africa / David Pollock --
How the Brigadier Slew the Fox / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
Hunting Musk-Oxen Near the Pole / Lieutenant R. E. Perry, USN --
Lion-Hunting / Alfred H. Miles --
In a Cuban Cave / Julius A. Palmer --
Leiningen Versus the Ants / Carl Stephenson.
