The dangerous book of heroes / [Conn Iggulden & David Iggulden].
Material type: TextPublication details: London : HarperCollins, 2009.Description: xiii, 481 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780007260928 (hbk.)
- 000726092X (hbk.)
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Biographies | Davis (Central) Library Biographies | Biographies | B IGG | 1 | Available | T00491408 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the co-author of the bestselling 'The Dangerous Book for Boys', this is a book of heroes, new and old, known and sadly forgotten, now to be glorified as they ought to be.
From Captain Scott to Joe Simpson, from Douglas Bader to Ernest Shackleton, from Gertrude Bell to Emily Pankhurst, Conn Iggulden brings our great heroes from history back to life.
Filled with the British sense of fair play and decency that made 'The Dangerous Book for Boys' so popular, 'The Dangerous Book of Heroes' celebrates those who fought for what is right and good, those who made amazing discoveries, those who moved boundaries in their lifetimes.
A book of heroes written by Conn Iggulden, a man who knows what makes a hero.
Coloured maps on end papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes -- Robert Clive -- Dr Bruce Hunt -- Hereward the Wake and the Rebels of Britain -- Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton -- The Few -- Magna Carta Barons -- Oliver Cromwell -- John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) -- Captain Philip Broke and the frigate Shannon -- Aphra Behn -- James Cook -- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- Abolition of slavery -- Edith Cavelll -- Douglas Bader -- Sir Garnet Wolseley -- Thomas Paine and the Rights of Man -- Thomas, Lord Cochrane "The Sea Wolf" -- Women of SOE -- Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer -- Charles Napier -- Lawrence of Arabia -- Florence Nightingale -- Defence of Rorkes Drift -- Winston Churchill -- James Brooke , Rajah of Sarawak -- Gertrude Bell "Al-khatun" -- Cecil Rhodes -- Gurkhas -- Horatio Nelson -- Billy Bishop and the courage of the Early Morning -- Bletchley Park and the first computers -- William Bligh's boat voyage -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington -- Alcock and Brown, transAtlantic crossing -- General James Wolfe -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Sir Francis Drake -- Scott of the Antarctic -- Men of Bristol and the discovery of North America -- Lisa Potts -- Men of Colditz -- Unknown warrior.
Maps on lining papers. -Includes bibliographical references and index. -A collected biography of men and women who performed heroic deeds throughout history.
From the co-author of the bestselling 'The Dangerous Book for Boys', this is a book of heroes, new and old, known and sadly forgotten, now to be glorified as they ought to be.--Publisher.