daredevils

Recounts the daring exploits of sixty-three-year-old Annie Edson Taylor who designed a barrel that she then used to ride over Niagara Falls for the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.

Photographs and text provide real-life examples of the dangerous and disastrous situations stunt performers and daredevils have survived.

Provides photographs and descriptions of various life-threatening stunts, including tight-rope walking, BASE jumping, and creating a human cannonball.

An illustrated story based on the true accounts of Sam Patch, who earned his reputation as a daredevil by making difficult jumps off bridges, cliffs, and Niagara Falls in the early 1800s.

Profiles fourteen women who flouted convention to work as entertainers in the years between 1880 and 1929, performing thrilling feats in the water, in the air, and in the circus.

In this fictionalized account, Sunny Boy, a 100-year-old tortoise, describes various events in his long life including the dangerous barrel ride over Niagara Falls that he takes with his daredevil owner on July 5, 1930.