adventure

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.

and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.

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.

The record teems with romance and adventure.

Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.

His passion and enthusiasm convey the courage and high adventure of Garibaldi's exploits and give the reader a unique sense of participation in the events described.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

Charming and peaceful -- but what were charm and peace compared to high adventure??

So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.

Another Virginia sight and a photographic adventure are the Luray Caverns, lit by photofloodlights.

They're buying fun and adventure and family experiences.

As long as audiences came to see the movement, there seemed little reason to adventure further.

I had told her enough about myself to offset somewhat the damaging stories that had appeared in local newspapers after my little adventure in Marshall Field & Co..

Currently, a part of Algerian writers tends to be defined in a literature of shocking expression, due to the terrorism that occurred during the 1990s, the other party is defined in a different style of literature who staged an individualistic conception of the human adventure.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

For some people, adventure becomes a major pursuit in and of itself.

Similarly, Helen Keller stated that " Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Outdoor adventurous activities are typically undertaken for the purposes of recreation or excitement: examples are adventure racing and adventure tourism.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

Campbell proposed that the heroic mythological stories from culture to culture followed a similar underlying pattern, starting with the " call to adventure ", followed by a hazardous journey, and eventual triumph.

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.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a well-known example of a fantasized adventure story.

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.