Hendrik Van Loon: 26 books

Contain The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes (1921) The Golden Fleece - And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (1922) The Old Tobacco Shop, A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (1921) The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon (1921)...

A collection of eleven Newbery Award winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for."The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived" by Padraic Colum"The Great Quest" by Charles Boardman Hawes"It's Like This, Cat" Emily Neville"The Old Tobacco Shop"...

The Story Of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon, Ph.D.

The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of Western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writing, art, and architecture, the rise of major religions, and the formation of the modern (for 1921) nation-state. Van Loon explains in the book how he selected...

Man was the last to come but the first to use his brain for the purpose of conquering the forces of nature. That is the reason why we are going to study him, rather than cats or dogs or horses or any of the other animals, who, all in their own way, have a very interesting historical development behind them.

Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. Most widely known among these is The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children, which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. The book was later updated by Van Loon and...

“Hidden talent counts for nothing.” - Nero. Strategy Six Pack 12 presents six historical texts spanning two millennia and three continents. Ancient Rome and the Americas get two books each: Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of Rome is paired with Jacob Abbott’s biography of...

“Remains a marvel: a sparkling, erudite, idiosyncratic tour through the human experience. . . . What a pageant this charming narrator continues to offer us!”—Wall Street Journal Winner of the first John Newberry Medal, Hendrik Willem van Loon’s The Story of Mankind, originally written...

Dopo aver raccontato, nell’ormai classica Storia dell’umanità, gli eventi che hanno segnato l’avventura dell’uomo, Hendrik van Loon scrive quello che può essere considerato il seguito del suo progetto pedagogico-letterario. Pubblicato nel 1923 e qui per la prima volta tradotto in italiano,...

Hendrik van Loon, pioniere e maestro della divulgazione, racconta la storia di una delle più antiche arti del mondo, la navigazione, che ha permesso all'Uomo di spingersi negli angoli più remoti del pianeta. Dalle primitive zattere fino ai transatlantici, dalle repubbliche marinare alla scoperta...

The history of Tolerance (or the lack thereof) in the history of man as described by one of the best popular historians of all time. Written by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Digitalized and collated by Jack Featherstone.

In questo libro, Hendrik Willem van Loon racconta il vertiginoso cammino del progresso tecnico-scientifico, dalla preistoria fino ai primi decenni del XX secolo. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1928, L’uomo inventore si snoda attraverso la descrizione delle invenzioni – dalla ruota al telescopio,...

First published in 1916, “The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators” is a detailed account of various famous Dutch navigators, many of whom sacrificed their lives and did so knowingly in the name of exploration. Some of them were drowned, and some of them died of thirst. A few were frozen to death,...

In this very precious essay by H. Willem van Loon, published in 1915 by Doubleday, Page and Company: APOLOGIA; FOREWORD: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ; PROLOGUE; THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD ORDER; THE REVOLUTION; THE COST OF REVOLUTION; THE PROVISIONAL; THE OPENING CEREMONIES; PIETER PAULUS; NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO....