A brief biography of the Commander-in-Chief of the American forces during the Revolution and first President of the new country.

Describes the life of the British man who helped free Arabia from European and Turkish rule.

A biography of one of America's most famous pilots, who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

Presents the story of the battle on the coast of Normandy in June, 1944, which was the turning point of World War II.

A biography of Sacagawea who accompanied and aided the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Looks at the journeys of Roy Chapman Andrews who, in the early twentieth-century, led countless expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History in search of dinosaur fossils, facing dangers such as pythons, wild dogs, marauding bandits, sandstorms, and corrupt officials.