The first drop on our platform includes the authors who have devoted themselves entirely to the risk and dare of the unknown frontiers of adventure. Quite deliberately, therefore, we want to present a group of writers who devised stories that thrilled and fascinated young and old across generations. The Adventurers wrote books about protagonists who are drawn to the far reaches of the world from the sheltered confines of everyday life to explore, discover and go where no one has gone before. These are stories about pirates and castaways, kings and slaves, treasure hunters and warriors, but also about the struggle for survival as well as friendship, loyalty and allegiance in the context of their historical times. Many of them with a strikingly frequently recurring motif: