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Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction: The Essential Reference to the Great Works and Writers of Adventure Fiction. By Don D'Ammassa. Facts On File Library of World Literature. New York: Facts On File, 2009. 364p. acid free $75 (ISBN 978-0-8160-7573-7).
D'Ammassa's latest addition to the Facts On File Literary Movements series joins his Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction.
The introduction describes adventure fiction as fastpaced stories "where the adventurous element is of primary importance" (vii). Thus, although many stories contain an element of adventure, included here are only those tales in which the adventure is an overarching feature. This directive is fairly subjective, although the author attempts to include titles from overlapping genres and authors from antiquity to...