great britain

Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the life and duties of a young Victorian servant.

A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.

The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Includes historical notes on her later life.

Discusses the life of British mountain climber, George Mallory, the discovery of his body seventy-five years after his death, and the debate over whether Mallory was the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Traces the adventurous life of the South Pole explorer whose ship, the Endurance, was frozen in ice and crushed, leaving the captain and crew to fight for survival.

Follows the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, from her childhood, through her experiences with the royal family and public life, to her death in 1997.

Traces the journeys and discoveries of Sir Francis Drake and other sixteenth-century mariners.

Tells the true stories of children who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission led by concerned British to save Jewish children from the Holocaust.

A biography of the Princess of Wales, beginning with her birth and including her death in 1997.

Presents the life of the Nobel Prize-winning British bacteriologists whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 revolutionized the treatment of disease.