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universe100 books1912

Set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
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Start with Tarzan of the Apes →

includes Tarzan, The Tarzan Trilogy, The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Martian Legion, Tarzan's Africa / Opar / Khokarsa

Jungle BookUniverse

universe44 books1893

Set in 19th century and south asia.

“The Law of the Jungle is older than any animal reciting it, and a naked man-cub who wandered into a wolf den at dusk will have to learn every clause of it.”
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Start with The Jungle Book →

includes The Jungle Books

Watership DownSeries

series21 books1972

completed

Fantasy, about quests and found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
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Start with Watership Down →

PymSeries

series5 books1838

About expeditions, set in arctic & antarctica and 19th century.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

Allan QuatermainSeries

series25 books1885

About expeditions, set in africa and 19th century.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
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Start with Marie →

CongoNovel

Michael Crichtonstandalone novel1980

Tense in tone, about expeditions, set in africa and late 20th century.

“WorldCat: On an expedition to return Amy, his talking gorilla, to her home in the Congo, Professor Peter Elliot is joined by others who hope to find a legendary diamond mine guarded by mutant gorillas.”
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