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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
" As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An introduction to the life of J. M. Barrie reveals his sorrow-marked childhood and the healing he experienced through a relationship with the Davies family, who inspired his creation of the Peter Pan classic.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "first real outstanding adventure" of his life, taking a berth as ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged him into dangerous work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, "came of age at 80 degrees north...
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
The life of the world's most famous detective is examined side-by-side with that of his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes' greatest cases, his most brilliant deductions, and his notorious weaknesses are featured along with Doyle's own tale of how Jack the Ripper helped boost sales of the first Sherlock Holmes story ever published.
Limited public performance rights.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Offers a riveting and humorous picture book about the incredible life of Arthur Conan Doyle: doctor, adventurer, tireless campaigner for justice, and creator of the world's most famous detective!
"What if you wrote a story about a detective, and he became the most famous detective ever? Wouldn't that be wonderful? Or, would it? Arthur has always loved stories. Even as he grew up poor, endured hardships at school and experienced danger on the high...
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