These look really good. Thanks!
flying rat I’ve had several Tim Powers books on my bookshelves untouched for years, I am definately dusting them off to give them sunlight and reading time this year. (Powers was brought to my attention via someone else here on the Dope and I happened upon his books at a sale and grabbed them.)
There are so many excellent suggestions that I may have to ask for donations to pay for my real life existence so I can spend my time reading.
Any takers?
Beau Geste. The most exciting book I have ever read.
All fantastic, but *Kidnapped *is my absolute favorite adventure book.
Another classic adventure I read not long ago that was better than I thought it would be was *The Island of Dr. Moreau *by H. G. Wells. I suppose I had the bar set pretty low because of the movie, but it’s a pretty fun story.
The Great Game looks to be excellent as well. 
Speaking of the great game let me add Kipling’s Kim
I’ve just finished Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure. It’s about her life and how she built and rowed her boat across the atlantic o. Tough childhood, a scrapper, smart, now president of Spaulding College in KY.
Except that I wouldn’t call She an adventure novel… it’s a captivity narrative, in which the protagonist spends most of the book doing nothing.
I always liked The Incredible Journey.
Henderson the Rain King is an old favorite of mine, although I think the first half is better than the second.
Definitely! Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm has a similar vibe. Exciting, detailed, gripping and readable, with an underlying sense of tragedy.
I prefer Treasure Island, but it’s definitely a tough call–and without the inimitable Long John Silver (who is to Jack Sparrow what absinthe is to lemonade), I’d probably go with Kidnapped too.
I listened to the audiobook of Kidnapped, and it’s read by a guy with a brogue thick enough to lie down and roll around it. It’s absolutely delightful.
Ooh! Another great adventure book is Gentlemen of the Road, by Michael Chabon. Also a great audiobook.
Now that’s a list! thanks for sharing…
I find I have several books on the lists, seems I am into sailing solo adventures, must dig up the one on the Grizzly guy, as I also like bear adventures. 
The Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. LOVE THEM! He is a fantastic hero-- brilliant, capable, but full of self-doubt. Read them in order for best effect.
Any of the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser
In the same mode I’d recommend Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series dealing with the adventures of a soldier under Wellington during Napoleonic times. In fact most of Cornwell’s other novels, mostly historical, have a strong adventure element.
The Wake of the Perdido Star by Gene Hackman (yes; THAT Gene Hackman), a good, rousing pirate adventure.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. A book written three times, according to the author, and destroyed by prison warders the first two times. Based on the author’s own life, it is the story of an armed robber from Australia who escaped a maximum security prison and ended up living in a Bombay slum. Don’t be put off by the title - it’s not a new age yoga fest, it’s a gangster story. Not perfectly written by any means, but absolutely gripping.