| Role/Occupation Adventurer |
| Total Entries 95 |
| Representative Allan Quatermain |
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[The hero was] an independently wealthy (or at least doesn’t do much work for a living) “gentleman of leisure” whose adventures were initially motivated by a lust for adventure and hatred of idleness, even if the character ultimately acted for heroic/patriotic motives. He is typically (very) British and/or from the Victorian London era, not only because the mentioned kinds of fiction proliferated in that time, but also because the Victorian ideal of adventuring usually expected the funder, the expeditionary and the scientist to be the same person, who usually had to be a well-educated and even better-to-do eccentric in order to meet the three requirements… ~ Gentleman Adventurer – TV Tropes
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