Skeers, Linda
Summary: Profiles fifty-two women in history who who have risked their lives for the sake of adventure, including Sophie Blanchard, Mary Anning, Minnie Spotted Wolf, and Alia Muhammad Baker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SKECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SKECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 920.72 SkeersCummins, Julie.
Summary: The stories of fourteen women during the period from 1880 to 1929 who performed feats of daring from being shot out of a cannon to high-diving on horseback.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CUMSummary: Carl Boenish is the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular and dangerous feats of foot-launched human flight. Experience his jaw-dropping journey in li fe and love, to the pinnacle of his achievements when he and wife Jean broke the BASE jumping Guinness World Record in 1984. Incredibly, within days, triumph was followed by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUNMontville, Leigh.
Summary: From a "New York Times" --bestselling author comes the riveting new biography that pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon-- and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011