The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat
The adventure story is one that has to have somthing happen There has to be action and conflict within thie type of story The author has to have the reader identify with a character in the story in order to draw them in
Merchant-Ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, John Nicholas of Liverpool Commander" (I: 8;11); the crew of the Adventure abandons Gulliver on Brobdingnag "a stout Merchant-Man of 350 Tuns" which Gulliver captains in the fourth voyage (IV: 1;1); after many of his crew die from Calentures, the replacements mutiny and take Gulliver prisoner, eventually setting him on shore on Houyhnhnm Land (IV: 1;2)
If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events. I set off for a new adventure in the United States on the first day of the new year