Inside this book, you’ll find stories of 50 extraordinary people such as: Evel Knievel, who jumped his motorcycle over 14 Greyhound buses; The Iceman, the most well-preserved human, found in the ice after 5,300 years; Sam Patch, who jumped Niagara Falls for $75; Helen Thayer, who walked to the North Pole alone; Roy Sullivan, who was struck by lightning 7 times. These intriguing facts and hundreds more await curious readers, amateur historians, and anyone who aspires to the altogether extraordinary.
- ISBN: 9781452127095
- Author: Hearst, Michael
- Illustrator: Scamihorn, Aaron
- Published: 2015 , Chronicle Books
- Themes: celebrities, fun facts
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Intermediate (ages 9-14), International, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- No. of pages: 112