I am trying to find a good adventure novel that takes place on a river. I read 800 Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne but I found it to be kind of a slow mover. Any recommendations? by jmhoff Related: Does anyone know some good books that mix sci-fi and fantasy? Need a well written rom-com for a vacation for picky reader Non-Fiction for January book club The eyes of a king anyone? Looking for Time Travel and Dystopia YA Books
econoquist on May 31, 2024 1:56 am Water Music by T.C. Boyle a Scot and African guide along the Niger River The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna about a [U.S.Navy](http://U.S.Navy) Gun Boat on the Yangtze The African Queen by C.S. Forester adventure along the Congo river The River Why by David James Duncan- comic and philosophical adventures of a young man along a river in Oregon Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad up the Congo parts of Brasyl by Ian McDonald chunks set journeying on the Amazon Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin – Vampires along the MIssissippi Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Blue Nile and The Nile by Alan Moorehead –history Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K, Jerome- comic adventure on the Thames
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Water Music by T.C. Boyle a Scot and African guide along the Niger River
The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna about a [U.S.Navy](http://U.S.Navy) Gun Boat on the Yangtze
The African Queen by C.S. Forester adventure along the Congo river
The River Why by David James Duncan- comic and philosophical adventures of a young man along a river in Oregon
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad up the Congo
parts of Brasyl by Ian McDonald chunks set journeying on the Amazon
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin – Vampires along the MIssissippi
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Blue Nile and The Nile by Alan Moorehead –history
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K, Jerome- comic adventure on the Thames