A collection of adventure stories set in exotic locales throughout the world includes stories by such leading authors as Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, and H. G. Wells.A hair-raisingcollection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if youopen it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk.Everyoneloves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventurestories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by JackLondon, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy,Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinatingvolume contains some of the best characters from the most thrillingadventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle;Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian;Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided intosections that embody the greatest themes of the genre—Sword &Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand andSun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy,Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa—it is destined to be the greatestcollection of adventure stories ever compiled.