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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Berson, Robin Kadison. Young heroes in world history. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607266667 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin Kadison Berson |
| ISBN: | 031330257X 9780313302572 |
| OCLC Number: | 40180117 |
| Description: | xvi, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Melba Pattillo Beals -- Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochrane) -- Vladimir Bukovsky --- Mairi Chisholm -- Marianne Cohn -- Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) -- Olaudah Equiano -- Nathan Hale -- Prateep Ungsongtham Hata -- Helmuth Hubener -- Daniel K. Inouye -- Chai Ling -- Sybil Ludington -- Jose Marti -- Iqbal Masih -- Arne Sejr -- Emma Tenayuca. |
| Responsibility: | Robin Kadison Berson. |
Abstract:
"The seventeen young men and women profiled here, who ranged in age from twelve to twenty-three at the time of their heroic deeds, came from ten nations, diverse cultures and races, and different times over a 250-year period. Many of their stories are told here for the first time.
Among the lives depicted are those of Charles Eastman, raised as a Sioux, who was thrust at age fourteen into an alien white world and who later returned to his people as a physician and saved many lives at Wounded Knee; Olaudah Equiano, a West African sold into slavery in the eighteenth century whose autobiography offers an unflinching portrayal of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade; and Chai Ling, the girl who assumed leadership of the student rebellion in China's Tiananmen Square."--BOOK JACKET.
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