Brave Companions
Portraits in History
Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · September 20, 2022
Master historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
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- Who it’s for
- McCullough’s vivid profiles bring an eclectic company of history-makers close.
- Genres
- Lives in History, Adventurers & Explorers, History Writing
- Published
- Simon & Schuster, September 20, 2022
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Master historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize–winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped the course of history and changed how we see the world. Their remarkable stories express much that is timeless about the human condition.
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Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed in scope the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Western artist Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a contemporary photographer of vanishing America. Different as they are from each other, McCullough’s subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives.
Lives in Motion
McCullough’s vivid profiles bring an eclectic company of history-makers close.
Come here for
- Explorers, artists, pilots, and reformers gathered in one book
- Lives linked by vitality and a strong sense of purpose
Expect
- Profiles spanning different eras and pursuits
- Storytelling that brings readers into the times these figures knew
Where it sits
| Adventurers & Explorers | 58% |
|---|---|
| Lives in History | 44% |
| History Writing | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Adventurers & Explorers
- 19th-Century America
- 20th-Century America
- Authors
- David McCullough, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- September 20, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Adventurers & Explorers