The Mammoth Book of Heroes: True Tales of Courage from Ancient Times to September 11, 2001 (Mammoth Books)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Whoever is heroic will always find crises to try their edge,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his essay “Heroism,” and popular Mammoth editor Jon E. Lewis has chosen crises throughout history that have tested human courage to the extreme. Heroism has inspired writers from Livy (on Horatius at the bridge) to Tom Wolfe (on Chuck Yaeger’s breaking the sound barrier), from Plato (on the death of Socrates) to St. John (on the crucifixion of Christ) to Richard Harding Davis (on the death of Adolfo Rodriguez). This comprehensive and illuminative volume also offers testimony f...
ISBN(s)
0786710675, 9780786710676
