Dictionary Of World Biography 8th Edition by Barry Jones 1925265781 9781925265781

There is no other book to turn to for a comprehensive guide to history’s biggest names including, to name just a few… Homer, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Christopher Columbus, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare, J S Bach, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong. And from an Australian perspective, this guide has more than enough of those within our own country who have in some way shaped our own history… Elizabeth Blackburn, Don Bradman, Henry Lawson, Mary McKillop, Macfarlane Burnett, Sidney Nolan, Kerry Packer and Peter Singer.