Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements

Containing graphic accounts of men and women whose daring deeds have given them word-wide fame; comprising heroes of land and sea. Including pioneers and their thrilling adventures; naval and military commanders; explorations in the tropics and polar regions; heroines of the battlefield and hospital; life savers of our tempestuous coasts; juvenile heroes, etc. etc.

By Henry Davenport Northrop, author of "Grandest century in the world's history;" "Excelsior writer and speaker;" "World-renowned authors and their masterpieces of poetry and prose;" etc. Embellished with hundreds of superb phototype and line engravings