The dangerous book of heroes
By: [Conn Iggulden & David Iggulden]
Contributors: Iggulden, David, 1949-
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780007260928
Subjects: Heroes; Juvenile literature; Biography
Other titles: Heroes
Description: A collected biography of men and women who performed heroic deeds throughout history.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sir Ranulph Fiennes; title: Robert Clive; title: Dr Bruce Hunt; title: Hereward the Wake and the Rebels of Britain; title: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton; title: The Few; title: Magna Carta Barons; title: Oliver Cromwell; title: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough); title: Captain Philip Broke and the frigate Shannon; title: Aphra Behn; title: James Cook; title: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay; title: Abolition of slavery; title: Edith Cavelll; title: Douglas Bader; title: Sir Garnet Wolseley; title: Thomas Paine and the Rights of Man; title: Thomas, Lord Cochrane "The Sea Wolf"; title: Women of SOE; title: Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer; title: Charles Napier; title: Lawrence of Arabia; title: Florence Nightingale; title: Defence of Rorkes Drift; title: Winston Churchill; title: James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak; title: Gertrude Bell "Al-khatun"; title: Cecil Rhodes; title: Gurkhas; title: Horatio Nelson; title: Billy Bishop and the courage of the Early Morning; title: Bletchley Park and the first computers; title: William Bligh's boat voyage; title: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; title: Alcock and Brown, transAtlantic crossing; title: General James Wolfe; title: Sir Walter Ralegh; title: Sir Francis Drake; title: Scott of the Antarctic; title: Men of Bristol and the discovery of North America; title: Lisa Potts; title: Men of Colditz; title: Unknown warrior.