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Isaac Newton

the greatest scientist of all time
1996
Examines the life of Isaac Newton, the seventeenth-century English scientist who formulated the theory of gravity.

Uncommon traveler

Mary Kingsley in Africa
2000
A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants.
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The country artist

a story about Beatrix Potter
1989
A biography of the English author and illustrator who grew up during the Victorian era and whose detailed drawings of plants and animals found their way into her famous picture books.
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