Screen LibraryExtraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals /
Inside this book, you'll find stories of 50 extraordinary people such as: Evel Knievel, who jumped his motorcycle over 14 Greyhound buses; The Iceman, the most well-preserved human, found in the ice after 5,300 years; Sam Patch, who jumped Niagara Falls for $75; Helen Thayer, who walked to the...
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Chronicle Books,
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| Publisher Address: | San Francisco : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Inside this book, you'll find stories of 50 extraordinary people such as: Evel Knievel, who jumped his motorcycle over 14 Greyhound buses; The Iceman, the most well-preserved human, found in the ice after 5,300 years; Sam Patch, who jumped Niagara Falls for $75; Helen Thayer, who walked to the North Pole alone; and Roy Sullivan, who was struck by lightning 7 times. These facts and hundreds more await curious readers, amateur historians, and anyone who aspires to the altogether extraordinary! |
| Carrier Form: | 110 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781452127095 1452127093 |
| Index Number: | CT107 |
| CLC: | K811-49 |
| Call Number: | K811-49/H436 |
| Contents: | Alicia Alonso -- P.T. Barnum -- Ibn Battuta -- Heraclio Bernal -- Manute Bol & Spud Webb -- Alexander Calder -- George Washington Carver -- Charlie Chaplin -- Julia Child -- Jeanne De Clisson -- Bessie Coleman -- Jacques Cousteau -- Marie Curie -- Wag Dodge -- Bobby Fischer -- Terry Fox -- Benjamin Franklin -- Buckminster Fuller -- Vincenzo Galilei -- Jane Goodall -- Temple Grandin -- Hetty Green -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Harry Houdini -- William Kamkwamba -- Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan -- Billie Jean King -- Evel Knievel -- Sergei Korolev -- Minakata Kumagusu -- Bruce Lee -- Edward Leedskalnin -- Stagecoach Mary -- Sir, Alfred Mehran -- Kevin Mitnick -- Rodney Mullen -- Otzi the Iceman -- Sam Patch -- George Plimpton -- Alain Robert -- Fred Rogers -- Deion Sanders -- Roy Sullivan -- Nikola Tesla -- Helen Thayer -- Leon Theremin -- Mark Twain -- Ruth Wakefield -- Larry Walters -- Malala Yousafzai. |