Armed with Courage (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: May McNeer, Lynd Ward
- First Published: 1957
- Time of Work: 1820–1957
- Setting: Africa, Europe, India, Labrador, Newfoundland, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Florence Nightingale, Father Damien, George Washington Carver, Jane Addams, Wilfred Grenfell, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Slavery or slaves, Courage, Science or scientists, Doctors, Social work, India or East Indian people, Medicine, Nonviolence, Nursing or nurses, Biography, Priests, Leprosy
- Locales: Africa, Europe, United States, Newfoundland, Canada, India, Labrador, Canada
Form and Content
The husband-and-wife team of May McNeer and Lynd Ward have spotlighted seven humanitarians, uniting their stories under the title Armed with Courage. Each section of the book is introduced with an illustration followed by a caption and the name of the individual. There is also a full-page portrait of each subject; other illustrations are interspersed throughout the text. All the artwork consists of black-and-white drawings.
The text begins with a pivotal, dramatic experience in each person’s life; the authors have chosen youthful incidents that...
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