Brave Companions

Name: Brave Companions
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ISBN: 9780671792763

ISBN-10: 0671792768

ISBN-13: 9780671792763

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: David McCullough

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The bestselling author ofTrumanandJohn Adams,David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman who made the big war"; 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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 11/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

David McCullough is a writer, historian, lecturer, & teacher. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman", as well as the Francis Parkman Prize, & the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award. He is also a two-time winner of the National Book Award, for history & for biography. He lives in Massachusetts.



Introduction



Phenomena



Journey to the Top of the World



The American Adventure of Louis Agassiz



The Unexpected Mrs. StoweII The Real West



Glory Days in Medora



RemingtonIII Pioneers



Steam Road to El Dorado



The Builders



The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop



Long-Distance VisionIV Figures in a Landscape



Cross the Blue Mountain



The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man



Miriam Rothschild



South of Kankakee: A Day with David PlowdenV On We Go



Washington on the Potomac



Extraordinary Times



Recommended Itinerary



Simon Willard's Clock


Index