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100 Folk Heroes Who Shaped World History

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Since the beginning of civilzation, folk heroes have mesmerized the world with their larger-than-life feats and defeats. In their realm, the unusual and the improbable are the norm, and their oft-repeatied myths reveal cultural freams and fears. Their dramas and tragedies hace been documented in every imaginable form, yet they are still experienced on a personal level.rnrnHere our nobleast fighters, like King Arthur's knights and Elliot Ness' Untouchables, mix with the icons of extinct societies, like King Tut and Montezuma. Here the controversies of Wyatt Earp and J. Edgar Hoover mingle with those of Billy the Kid and Bonnie and Clyde. Here are the enchanting mysteries of Mona Lisa and Captain Kidd's buried treasure. This book is a tribute to our fantastic, timeless legends and the lives that created them.

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920 KRA w

Publisher

Singapore : Bluewood Books., 1996

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114 p.: ilus.; 23 cm

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981-00-7530-8

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920

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Edition

Cet.1, 1996

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hero

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