Mary Morton Cowan: 2 books
Cyrus Field's Big Dream
The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
In this middle-grade nonfiction title, award-winning author Mary Morton Cowan explores the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the nineteenth century: laying a transatlantic
telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents.
Cyrus...
Captain Mac
The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
From 1908 until 1954, Donald Baxter MacMillan spent nearly 50 years exploring the Arctic—longer than anyone else. Growing up near the ocean, and orphaned by 12, MacMillan forged an adventurous life. Mary Morton Cowan focuses on the vital role MacMillan played in Robert Peary's 1908-09 North Pole...