That 'those kinds' of stories are no longer written is not only one of the major threads of this review, but, as you'll see, something of a plot point within the book itself. But the key phrase in that pull-quote, of course, is 'those kinds.' It's immediately clear that the authors are harking back to a very specific tradition of adventure stories, one that belonged to the long nineteenth century. I first heard about The Explorers Guild last year, when a news story, claiming that 'those kinds of grand escapades vanished from children's bookshelves,' got a significant amount of negative attention on my social media feeds: its implicit suggestion was that no one was writing adventure stories for children anymore, now that Kipling and R.
