Cleodie Mackinnon Stories of Courage (Oxford Children's Reference Library) English edition

Cleodie Mackinnon

F. Watts, 1968 - Biography - 96 pages

Stories of couragous people: Leonidas, King of Sparta, Socrates, Hannigbal, the Carthaginian, Simon called Peter, Caradoc's fight for freedom, Alfred the Great and the Danes, Thomas a Becket, Alexander Nevsky, Robert Bruce, Joan of Arc, Kate Barlass, Sir Thomas More, Cranmer, A Protestant Martyr, A Roman Catholic Martyr, William the silent, Charles I's standard bearer, Marquis of Montrose, John Sobieski, King of Poland, Madeleine De Vercheres, Flora Macdonald, General Wolfe of Quebec, Beethoven, The Deaf Musician, The slave who liberated his country, Nelson of Trafalgar, Grace Darling, Garibaldi and the Freedom of Italy, Father Damien and the lepers, The first English woman doctor, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Shackleton's voyage, Nurse Cavell, The first woman to fly to Australia, Gladys Ayleward in China, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, An Australian hero disarms a mine, Violette Szabo-A Secret Agent, The man who nearly killed Hitler, across The Pacific on a raft, Albert Luthule, An African Chief, and The First American Astronaut.


Bibliographic information

Stories of Courage
Volume 5 of Franklin Watts reference library
Volume 5 of Oxford children's reference library
AuthorCleodie Mackinnon
Publisher F. Watts, 1968
Length96 pages