Item Description: |
Includes index. Contains over 170 illustrations. Contains an illustrated chronology, (p. 657-662). |
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Physical Description: |
xxix, 674 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
ISBN: |
0871401754 (pbk.) |
Author Notes: |
He was an author, historian, and illustrator. His wrote about 40 books during his lifetime including The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators, Report to Saint Peter, and The Story of Mankind, which received the Newberry Medal in 1922. During World War II, he broadcast speeches to the Netherlands. For his contributions during the war, Queen Wilhelmina, the Dutch queen, knighted him in 1942. He died on March 11, 1944 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) |