A Discovery book

A biography of the explorer who discovered a great river and bay and charted rich lands in the American wilderness.

A biography of the brothers who made the world's first flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

An easy biography of the American statesman best remembered for his initiation and support of political compromise to keep the Union together during the first half of the nineteenth century.

A biography of the founder of modern nursing.

A biography of the pilot who became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.

A biography of the black educator and organizer of Tuskegee Institute who spent his life working for equality for the people of his race.

A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.

A biography of the Arctic explorer who discovered the North Pole in 1909.