super+adventure

= What is Adventure? =

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 * "It sends chills down my spine." Adventure is usually described as an experience, which involves danger. The journey is exciting, an experience that would not likely to be forgotten quickly. **[|source of definition]=====

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=**__The Call Of The Wild, By:Jack London __**=

==**"Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916) is best known for his books //The Call of the Wild//, //White Fang//, and //The Sea-Wolf//, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence." In fact, he was a prolific writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures: the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. He experimented with many literary forms, from conventional love stories and dystopias to science fantasy. His noted journalism included war correspondence, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers. A committed socialist, he insisted against editorial pressures to write political essays and insert social criticism in his fiction. He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success. London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for ranching through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40. He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world."**==

==**"Born May 17, 1939, Gary Paulsen is one of America's most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student, Paulsen developed a passion for reading at an early age. After a librarian gave him a book to read — along with his ow**==

__**Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson **__
==" **Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 13 November 1850, the only child born to Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829-1897) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a civil engineer and pioneering designer of lighthouses. He would later change "Lewis" to "Louis", pronounced "Lewis". When young Louis was not bed-ridden suffering from a fever or cold exacerbated by the damp and chilly Scottish weather, he was often in the company of his father and the fishermen and lighthouse keepers he worked closely with. These times would provide much fodder for his own stories as a child and adult. Louis' devoted nurse Allison Cunningham "Cummy" read to him and encouraged him at an early age to write his own stories including "History of Moses"; he dedicated //A Child's Garden of Verses// (1885) to her."**== ** [|Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson] ** =__//Illustrators //__=

==Scott McKowen is a published illustrator of children's books and young adult books. So me of the published credits of Scott McKowen include The Call of The Wild, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Anne of Avonlea.==

__ **W. Russell Flint** __
=="Flint lived from 1880 to 1970 and was actively preparing his autobiography when he died just short of his 90th birthday. That book, **In Pursuit**, has only had one edition of 1050 copies, but Ralph Lewis has published two biographies of Flint based on the information therein. Of course, he couldn't reproduce all of the 120 plates and drawings from **Pursuit**, but he gave it a good shot.==

[[image:flinthro.jpg width="217" height="249" align="right" caption="Illistration by W. Russell Flint" link="super adventure"]]
==His earliest work was for the //Illustrated London News// from 1903 - 1907 during which time he recorded current events. His first book illustrations were for **King Solomon's Mines** in 1905, followed by **Of the Imitation of Christ** in 1908, **Song of Songs** (**which is Solomon's**), two volumes of **Savoy Operas** (Gilbert and Sullivan) and **Marcus Aurelius** in 1909 and 1910, and then his splendid four volume, 48 plate, **Le Morte D'Arthur** in 1910 - 1911, an image from which appears above".[|Biography of W. Russell Flint]==

**__ Sulamith Wülfing __**
=="She was born in Germany in 1901 and raised by very spiritual parents (her father was a Theosophist).The artist within her burst forth at the age of four. She had a very definite and personal style firmly developed before she received her first formal training at the Art College in Wuppertal. Graduating in 1921, she spent the next decade painting her vision of the world. When she married in 1932, she and her husband started a company to print and distribute her work. It was in existence until his death in 1976. In 1997, Bluestar Communications issued a new edition of **The Little Mermaid** illustrated by Sulamith Wülfing".== [|Biography of Sulamith Wulfing]