Ernest Shackleton by Janet and Geoff Benge

Janet Benge and Geoff Benge Biographies

By Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Level 7
Review:

These books tell the remarkable, true stories of inspiring men and women throughout history and the incredible things they did. Learn about athletes, missionaries, and explorers as you read their great stories of faith and bravery.

Books in this series we recommend: Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems; Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language; Charles Mulli: We Are Family; David Livingstone: Africa’s Trailblazer; Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold; Ernest Shackleton: Going South; George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans; Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China; Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer; Paul Brand: Helping Hands; William Bradford: Plymouth’s Rock; William Penn: Liberty and Justice for All

Books in this series that did not make the booklist: Sundar Singh: Footprints Over the Mountains; Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma 

Books in this series that we have not yet reviewed: Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom; Alan Shepard: Higher and Faster; Albert Schweitzer: Le Grand Docteur; Ben Carson: A Chance at Life; Benjamin Franklin: Live Wire; Billy Graham: America’s Pastor; Brother Andrew: God’s Secret Agent; Christopher Columbus: Across the Ocean Sea; Clara Barton: Courage Under Fire; Clarence Jones: Mr. Radio; Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels Den; Count Zinzendorf: Firstfruit; C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller; C.T. Studd: No Retreat; D.L. Moody: Bringing Souls to Christ; Daniel Boone: Frontiersman; David Bussau: Facing the World Head-On; David Livingstone: Africa’s Trailblazer; Davy Crockett: Ever Westward; Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness; Douglas Macarthur: What Greater Honor; Elisabeth Elliot: Joyful Surrender; Elizabeth Fry: Angel of Newgate; Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold; Ernest Shackleton: Going South; Florence Young: Mission Accomplished; Francis Asbury: Circuit Rider; George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans; George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist; Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime; Harriet Tubman: Freedombound; Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China; Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts; Isobel Kuhn: On the Roof of the World; Jacob Deshazer: Forgive Your Enemies; Jim Elliot: One Great Purpose; John Adams: Independence Forever; John Flynn: Into the Never Never; John Newton: Change of Heart; John Smith: A Foothold in the New World; John Wesley: The World, His Parish; John Williams: Messenger of Peace; Jonathan Goforth: An Open Door in China; Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas; Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life; Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt; Lottie Moon: Giving Her All for China; Louis Zamperini: Redemption; Loren Cunningham: Into All the World; Mary Slessor: Forward Into Calabar; Meriwether Lewis Off the Edge of the Map; Milton Hershey: More Than Chocolate; Mildred Cable: Through the Jade Gate; Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer; Orville Wright: The Flyer; Paul Brand: Helping Hands; Rachel Saint: A Star in the Jungle; Richard Wurmbrand: Love Your Enemies; Ronald Reagan: Destiny at His Side; Rowland Bingham: Into Africa’s Interior; Samuel Zwemer: The Burden of Arabia; Sundar Singh: Footprints Over the Mountains; Theodore Roosevelt: An American Original; Thomas Edison: Inspiration and Hard Work; Wilfred Grenfell: Fisher of Men; William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation; William Bradford: Plymouth’s Rock; William Carey: Obliged to Go; William Penn: Liberty and Justice for All; William Wilberforce: Take Up the Fight

(Reviewed by An Official Good and Beautiful Reviewer)

Series Yes
Period late 1800s to early 1900s
Genre Biography, Fiction
Digital Format Audiobook, E-book
The Good and the Beautiful Library No
  • Audiobook
  • E-Book
  • 3.5 Entertainment Value
  • 4 Moral Value
  • 4 Educational Value
  • 4 Literary Value
Rating System