xv, 408 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, color picture plate on front board, illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece and color and black-and-white plates by Frank Godwin, maps by Edwin C. Eirich. A collection of biographical sketches of heroes from various walks of life. Includes chapters on: Socrates; Moses; Hannibal; Saul of Tarsus; Francis of Assisi; Joan of Arc; Savonarola; Martin Luther; Elizabeth of England; Francis Drake; George Washington; Daniel Boone; Andrew Jackson; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; Clara Barton; Garibaldi; David Livingstone; 'Chinese' Gordon; Father Damien; Theodore Roosevelt; Robert E. Peary; Wilbur and Orville Wright; Dr. Grenfell; Catherine Breshkovsky; Edith Cavell; Mahatma Gandhi; Lawrence of Arabia; Felix von Luckner; Charles Lindbergh.
