Thrilling Adventures Take Listeners to New Heights and Sights

Most of us are excited about travel and exploration but seldom get to exotic places. In fact, many of the most exciting places to travel to are in the past. So how do we get there without leaving our cozy homes? One way is to read or listen to a travel adventure stories written by historian, journalists, and novelists, past and present. There are blogger at Cotopaxi who share their adventures and write about travel http://aventuras.cotopaxi.com/. Cotopaxi https://www.cotopaxi.com/ inspired me to write about authors who inspire that drive to explore and learn about the world around us. One author of many spine tingling adventures is G.A. Henty.

Born in England in 1832, Henty was the author of Victorian children’s adventure tales that rival Jules Verne, R.M. Ballantyne, and Rudyard Kipling. While Verne, Ballantyne, and Kipling are well known to readers and movie-goers alike, Henty falls in and out of fashion. Nevertheless, his stories are gaining in popularity as they are recorded with full casts, newly released on CD for children of all ages, and all subtitled “the extraordinary adventures of G.A. Henty.”

Henty wrote over 122 adventure stories that take readers and listeners across the globe, from India to Africa, and from the wars in England, battles between knights and knaves, the Crusades, and the American Civil War. The audiobooks are filled with sound effects, from sword fights to galloping horses, from blizzards to torrential rains, from ships at sea to railroads and wagons. These sound effects, along with music, enhance each book and add to the adventure, all described in exquisite detail and imagined dialogue. 

Lace up your hiking boots and strap on your knives, swords, and guns as Henty takes you on adventures of a lifetime through rocky climes and mountainous terrain, over the sea and across lakes. The adventures don’t stop until the very last word echoes through your ears or across the page.

Long out of copyright, Henty’s books have been reprinted by many publishers including Dover Publications, Inc. http://search.doverpublications.com/search?keywords=henty  A number of audiobook publishers, including LibriVox https://librivox.org/author/287, Audio Theater, and Heirloom Audio http://www.heirloomaudio.com/have released Henty’s titles for a new audience of listeners and adventurers.

For a recent review of “In Freedom’s Cause” about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, see http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/110415/