Dominic Flandry:
defends a Kursovikian ship against attack by the sea dwellers;
defends a sea port against attack by Merseians and sea dwellers;
visits cities of the sea dwellers;
travels in the Viscount of Ny Kalmar's space yacht;
visits different parts of Merseia;
escapes with Persis d'Io in a space boat;
travels first as a passenger, then as a participant, in a space battle;
visits Old Town on Irumclaw...
There is a lot more than this, of course, but that is as far as I have reread so far this time.
And it is not just Flandry:
Lord Hauksberg during the planetary carnival for the Emperor's Birthday;
Max Abrams capturing Dwyr the Hook in Highport;
Brechdan Ironrede at Castle Dhanghodan and in Ardaig;
Dwyr spying in Ardaig;
Djana negotiating with the alien, Rax;
etc.
Here we might also list beings of other species loyal to the Roidhunate of Merseia:
Rax
Aycharaych
A'u
Muhammad Snell
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Dialogue from a book I'm working on:
First speaker: "Is this an adventure, -mamacita-?"
Second speaker: "If we were reading about it in a storybook, or watching it at the cinema, this would be -una gran aventura heroica-!"
Third speaker: "But since we're here ourselves right now, it's just a pain in the fundamentals. Where's that butter, it should still be good?"
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I've seen Anderson use variations of this definition: An adventure is someone else having a tough time a hundred miles away!
Ad astra! Sean
Or you could say it's an adventure in retrospect.
Watching a charging rhino's horn about a foot away from the rear bumper of a car I was in was unpleasant at the time, but I've been dining out on the story ever since... 8-).
Or there's that teacher of mine who had lion-fang scars on his left shoulder, and had a hippo overturn his canoe and bite one of the people in it in half...
Somewhat more of an 'adventure' than my close encounter with the bear kind I mention in a comment here.
http://poulandersonappreciation.blogspot.com/2023/04/adventure.html
More unpleasant was landing badly coming downhill on a backcountry ski trip. Skiing about 10 km downhill to the trailhead on the Trans-Canada with a swelling knee wasn't fun.
Still much easier than that hippo encounter.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Just glad you survived that far too close encounter with the rhino! I can only shudder about the lion and hippo incidents.
Ad astra! Sean
Of course, up-close-and-personal encounters with dangerous animals would have been -routine- for our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
And even farming... cows and horses can be dangerous without even meaning to, and if they lose their tempers...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree! I used to take horse riding lessons and, among other things, the instructor warned us to always be aware of we placed our feet and NEVER to stand directly behind a horse.
Ad astra! Sean
Horses have a kick reflex if they're startled or frightened.
I saw a lion once that had been kicked in the face by a zebra it was chasing -- it had a broken jaw and was doomed to die of starvation or thirst.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
No surprise! If I'm using the terminology correctly, zebras belongs to the genus Equus.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yes, they do -- rather like donkeys and onangers.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I thought so!
Ad astra! Sean
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