The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

By 14 he had already written a short adventure novel called The Black Diamonds which was lost for years until published in 2002.

A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact.

Cuauhtémoc, in the name Guatemoc, is portrayed sympathetically in the adventure novel Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

In 1986, the novel was adapted into a computer text adventure game of the same name.

The novel is occasionally quite critical of King Richard, who seems to love adventure more than he loves the well-being of his subjects.

* Simon Hawke uses the story as the basis for The Ivanhoe Gambit the first novel in his time travel adventure series TimeWars.

La Malinche, in the name Marina (" for her Indian name is too long to be written "), also appears in the adventure novel Montezuma's Daughter ( 1893 ), by H. Rider Haggard.

A fictional journal written by La Malinche and discovered in an archeological dig is a central element in a 2008 adventure novel The Treasure of La Malinche by Jeffry S. Hepple.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure ( The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 ), the thriller ( such as the works of Edgar Wallace ) and the politico – military thriller ( The Schirmer Inheritance, 1953, The Quiet American, 1955 ).

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

That story revealed that Templar wrote an adventure novel featuring a South American hero not far removed from The Saint himself.

He writes a novel about the adventure, which ultimately rescues Claire from her addiction to the device, via the power of words.

* The Angel's Command, a children's adventure novel by British writer Brian Jacques, is set in the year 1628.

** Gateway ( computer game ), two adventure games based on the novel have been created by Legend Entertainment

* Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), WWII adventure from the Alistair MacLean novel.

In Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth ( 1954 ), a young Roman officer searches to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in the northern part of Great Britain.

Tracy played a Portuguese fisherman in an adventure movie based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling.

Showdown is a romantic adventure novel written by famous Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn ( 1909-1959 ).

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

FC Zaanstreek was formed in 1964, continuing the professional adventure of the Kooger Football Club ( KFC ).

A side scrolling adventure that was about 85 % complete when cancelled.

* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.

Another success was the Fun Section of D. C. Thomson's Scottish weekly newspaper The Sunday Post, which included the two strips Oor Wullie and The Broons by lead artist Dudley Watkins, as well as other funnies and various puzzles and adventure stories.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

In late 1997 and in early 1998 the " space adventure " genre was a very popular TV theme in Japan.

The leader of the creative team was director Shinichiro Watanabe, most notable at the time for directing the futuristic adventure anime OVA series Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam.

Although a small adventure entitled ' Temple of the Frog ' was included in the Blackmoor rules supplement in 1975, the first stand-alone D & D module published by TSR was 1978's Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, written by Gygax.

He immediately called the editor, Byron Erickson, and told him that he was the only American who was born to write and draw one Scrooge McDuck adventure.

As Don Rosa explained it, he was just "(...) turning that old Pertwillaby Papers adventure back into the story it originally was in my head, starring Scrooge, Donald, the nephews, and Flintheart Glomgold.

The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

The 7th film in the Godzilla series, this was the first of two island themed adventure films starring Godzilla.

TSR started production on a third adventure module, which was to be assigned the identification code GW5 and had the working title Rapture of the Deep.

Some English government officials felt that Louis Bonaparte was seeking foreign adventure in the spirit of his uncle — Napoleon I. Consequently, these officials felt that any close association with Louis Bonaparte would eventually lead Britain into another series of wars, like the wars with France and Napoleon dating from 1793 until 1815.

The economic stagnation was only one factor ; other push factors included a zest for travel and adventure, and the pull factors of better job opportunities abroad, personal networks to link into, and the basic cultural similarity of the United States, Canada, and Australia.