Brave companions : portraits in history
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
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920.073
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Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
920.073
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920.073
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Los Osos Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
920.073
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 920.073 | On Shelf |
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 920.073 | On Shelf |
Los Osos Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 920.073 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Includes index.
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Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped the course of history and changed how we see the world. Their remarkable stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed in scope the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman who made the big war"; Western artist Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a contemporary photographer of vanishing America. Different as they are from each other, McCullough's subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives.
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