Bibliograph

Adventurers, by Jane Bingham

Type

Label

Adventurers, by Jane Bingham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 30) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Adventurers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

642000943

Responsibility statement

by Jane Bingham

Series statement

What is an adventurer? -- Captain Robert Scott -- Amelia Earhart -- Sir Francis Chichester -- Jacques Cousteau -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova -- Neil Armstrong -- sir Ranulph Fiennes -- Matthew Henson -- Sir Ernest Shackleton -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- Amy Johnson -- Miles Hilton Barber -- Benedict Allen20th century lives

Summary

Takes a look into the lives of fifteen influential adventurers of the twentieth century whose exploits advanced mankind in one way or another

Table Of Contents

What is an adventurer? -- Robert Scott -- Amelia Earhart -- Francis Chichester -- Jacques Cousteau -- Thor Heyerdahl -- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay -- Neil Armstrong -- Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova -- Ranulph Fiennes -- Matthew Henson -- Ernest Shackleton -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Amy Johnson -- Miles Hilton-Barber -- Benedict Allen

Target audience

juvenile

Classification