Christine Schulz-Reiss Who Was That? » Who Was That? Adventurers and Discoverers « 12+, January 2006 288 pages, 18.0 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-5638-2 hardcover 19,90 € (D) Rights sold: Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Korean, Arabic

Who took off his shoes before setting out on his journey as the first man in space? Who was the shark-catcher who could not swim? There are numerous biographies of famous people. But this series is different. It does not merely describe exciting lives, it also incites the reader to guess: who was it?
The first volume contains the lives of important personalities who in many cases came close to their personal limits in order to discover and explore new territory. Many of the names, such as James Cook, Yuri Gagarin and Thor Heyerdahl will be known to readers, and others they will identify for the first time: well that's who it was!

Christine Schulz-Reiss was born in 1956. She studied German literature, history, politics and commun...