SOURCE: A review of The Adventurer, in The Bookman, London, Vol. XXXV, No. 205, October, 1908, p. 58.

In the following review, the critic calls The Adventurer a "clean and invigorating tale. "

Dr. von Zedtwitz, guiding a scientific expedition from the city of Quito into the unexplored regions of the Southern Llanos, fell into the hands of the savage aboriginals and spent three years in captivity. It was then that he happened by chance upon a place called Cassaquiari, and found the ruins of an antique city, and among the ruins the actual strong-room of the citadel, and in the strong-room five thousand ingots of pure gold. He escaped from captivity and one day met Mrs. Poulteney Hitchcock. She was a millionaire and was soon persuaded to finance an expedition to recover the buried treasure. Westbrook, the famous inventor, designed the vessel Fortuna that was to bear the weighty mass across...