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"Did they tell you stories about the saints of old,
stories about their faith?
Stories like that make a boy grow bold,
stories like that make a man walk straight..."
—Rich Mullins, Boy Like Me, Man Like You

Stories about people have a way of affecting us in ways other stories can't. The Bible is primarily stories about people, and it is through these multiple biographies that we understand human nature, the history of redemption, and even to a great extent God Himself. The purpose behind any other biography is largely the same—to help us understand what it means to be human from the examples (sometimes even the bad examples) of those who have preceded us.

The biographies we have chosen for this section represent those of great leaders in history, social and military heroes, and Christian saints past and present who struggled to conform their lives to Christ's perfect example. We have avoided for the most part biographies of history's villains and chronic immoralists, not because they aren't interesting but because they don't represent lives worthy of imitation. We've also decided not to focus on athletes, actors, and celebrities, unless they've made important contributions outside their fields. That's not to say everyone found here was above reproach or even a Christian, but they all demonstrated real human virtues for which they are remembered.

Biographies are also useful for better understanding of a given historical period. While history books can provide good overviews of a period or events, the intimate detail of a good biography can better illustrate a time period and what it was like to be alive then. This also serves to demonstrate the universality of human nature, that people will behave basically the same during any given period and in any given place. Sometimes we get the impression that people of the past, especially people like missionaries and ministers, were somehow more pious than we are—the personal view offered by a good biography dispels this myth and offers encouragement that not even the best men and women are any closer to perfection than we are.

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	Amerigo Vespucci by Nina Brown Baker, illustrated by Paul Valentino from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Around the World in a Hundred Years From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz from Penguin Putnam Biography for 2nd-5th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Balboa, Finder of the Pacific by Ronald Syme, illustrated by William Stobbs from William Morrow & Company for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Balboa: Discoverer of the Pacific by Jeannette Mirsky from Harper & Row for 4th-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador World Landmark #25 by Felix Riesenberg, Jr., illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	Book of Famous Explorers Young Folks Library by Edwin Erle Sparks, editor from Auxiliary Educational League for 3rd-9th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Brendan the Navigator A History Mystery about the Discovery of America by Jean Fritz from Penguin Putnam for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
	Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer by Ronald Syme from William Morrow & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
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	Christopher Columbus Sowers Series by Bennie Rhodes from Mott Media for 4th-6th grade in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW) $8.99 $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Christopher Columbus Sowers Biographies by Bennie Rhodes from Mott Media for 4th-6th grade in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Christopher Columbus and His Brothers by Amy Hogeboom from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World by Jim Gallagher from Chelsea House Publishing for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Columbus by Edgar & Ingri D'Aulaire from Beautiful Feet Books Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $17.95
	Columbus and the Renaissance Explorers from Scholastic Inc. for 3rd-7th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $3.00 (2 in stock)
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	Daniel Boone: Boy Hunter Childhood of Famous Americans by Augusta Stevenson from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Discovery of the Americas by Betsy & Giulio Maestro from HarperTrophy for 3rd-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $9.99
	Drake: The Man They Called a Pirate by Jean Lee Latham from Harper & Brothers for 4th-8th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Encounter by Jane Yolen 1^st edition from Voyager Paperbacks for 1st-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $9.99
	Encounter by Jane Yolen, illustrated by David Shannon from Harcourt Brace Jovanich for 1st-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
	Eric the Red & Leif the Lucky by Barbara Schiller from Avyx, Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Middle Ages (Location: HISW-MID) $4.50 (3 in stock)
	Exploration and Conquest The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 The American Story Series by Betsy & Giulio Maestro from HarperCollins for 3rd-7th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $11.99
	Exploration and Conquest The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 by Betsy & Giulio Maestro 1^st edition from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books for 3rd-7th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Exploration and Conquest The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 by Betsy & Giulio Maestro 1^st edition from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books for 3rd-7th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Exploration of Africa by Thomas Sterling from Harper & Row for 4th-8th grade in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
	Explorer's Handbook by Marilyn Tolhurst from Dutton Children's Books for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
	Explorers & Discoverers - 4 Volume Set From Alexander the Great to Sally Ride from UXL Publishing biographical encyclopedia for 5th-8th grade in World History Reference (Location: HISW-REF) $30.00 (1 in stock)
	Explorers for God by Nathan Aaseng from Augsburg Fortress for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP)
	Explorers News Columbus In Japan? The History News by Michael Johnstone from Candlewick Press for 3rd-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $6.99 $4.50 (4 in stock)
	Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Dreher from Tor Classic Non-fiction for 4th-8th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Sansevere-Dreher, Illustrated by Ed Renfro from Starscape for 4th-8th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Ferdinand Magellan First to Sail Around the World by Milton Meltzer from Benchmark Books for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	Ferdinand Magellan World Landmark #31 by Seymour Gates Pond, illustrated by Jack Coggins from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	Ferdinand Magellan by Ronald Welch from Criterion Books for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Ferdinand Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World by Jim Gallagher from Chelsea House Publishing for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.00 (1 in stock)
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	Golden Book History of the United States by Earl Schenck Miers, illustrated by Alton S. Tobey and Richard P. Kluga from Golden Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Golden Book History of the United States - 12 Volume Set by Earl Schenck Miers, illustrated by Alton S. Tobey and Richard P. Kluga from Golden Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $75.00 (1 in stock)
	Golden Book History of the United States Volume 1 The Explorers from 986 to 1701 by Earl Schenck Miers from Golden Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Great Explorers by Joyce Grosseck & Elizabeth Attwood for 4th-8th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $6.00 (1 in stock)
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	Marco Polo for Kids by Janis Herbert from Chicago Review Press Biography/Activity Book for 4th-8th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $17.95
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	Meet Christopher Columbus by James de Kay from Random House Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Step Up Books (Location: VIN-STEP)
	Meet Christopher Columbus by James de Kay from Random House Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $2.00 (2 in stock)
	Meet the Men who Sailed the Seas by John Dyment, Illustrated by Victor Mays from Random House Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Step Up Books (Location: VIN-STEP)
	Men Who Found America by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson from Living Book Press for 4th-7th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $7.99
	Prince Henry the Navigator by Leonard Everett Fisher 1^st edition from Atheneum for 2nd-5th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Prisoner of the Indies The Adventures of Miles Philips as Told by Geoffrey Household by Geoffrey Household, with map and decorations by Warren Chappell from Little, Brown & Company for 4th-7th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Samuel De Champlain Explorer of the Great Lakes Region and Founder of Quebec Library of Explorers and Exploration by Josepha Sherman from Rosen Central for 4th-6th grade in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
	Sea Tiger The Story of Pedro Menendez by Frank Kolars, illustrated by Craig Pineo from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Ships, Sailors and the Sea Usborne Beginner's Knowledge by Caroline Young, J. Miles from Usborne for 3rd-7th grade in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
	Sieur de La Salle New World Adventurer by John Paul Zronik from Crabtree Publishing for 3rd-8th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $3.00 (1 in stock)
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	Sir Walter Raleigh Captain and Adventurer by Nina Brown Baker 1^st edition from Harcourt, Brace & Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Story of Christopher Columbus Cornerstones of Freedom by Zachary Kent from Children's Press for 4th-6th Grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of Christopher Columbus Grosset & Dunlap Signature #2 by Nina Brown Baker, illustrated by David Hendrickson from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Marco Polo Grosset & Dunlap Signature #22 by Olive Price, illustrated by Frederico Castellon from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Marquette and Jolliet by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of Marquette and Jolliet by R. Conrad Stein from Children's Press for 4th-6th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Sir Walter Raleigh The Children's Heroes Series by Margaret Duncan Kelly from Yesterday's Classics Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $9.95
	They Saw America First Our First Explorers and What They Saw by John Bakeless, Katherine Bakeless from J.B. Lippincott Co. for 4th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Travels of Samuel de Champlain by Joanne Mattern 1^st edition from Steck-Vaughn Company for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	True Story of Sir Francis Drake Privateer by Will Holwood from Children's Press for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Usborne Book of Explorers From Columbus to Armstrong by Anne Millard, Felicity Everett & Struan Reid from Usborne for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $7.00
	Usborne Book of Explorers From Columbus to Armstrong by Anne Millard, Felicity Everett & Struan Reid from Usborne for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $4.50 (1 in stock)
	Vasco de Gama and the Portuguese Explorers by Jim Gallagher from Chelsea House Publishing for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Vast Horizons by Mary Seymour Lucas, illustrated by C. B. Falls from Viking Press for 5th-10th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $25.00 (1 in stock)
	Voyages of Christopher Columbus Spencer Press Landmark #1 (RH#1) by Armstrong Sperry from Spencer Press for 5th-8th grade in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
	Voyages of Henry Hudson World Landmark #54 by Eugene Rachlis, illustrated by Herman B. Vestal from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	Westward With Columbus by John Dyson from Scholastic Inc. for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Westward With Columbus Set sail on the voyage that changed the world by John Dyson from Scholastic Inc. for 4th-6th grade in Age of Exploration (1450-1700) (Location: HISA-16EXP) $6.00 (1 in stock)

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