Auteur: Lennard Bickel

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Lennard Bickel (1913–2002) was a science writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1960s. He was the only Australian journalist invited to witness the 1969 Apollo II moon landing from the launch site.In 1970, Bickel was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fellowship in order to write Rise Up To Life, a biography of Howard Florey, who pioneered the development of penicillin. He subsequently wrote a number of other books that highlight remarkable human achievement: little-known epics of triumph over diversity, including This Accursed Land (1977), about Douglas Mawson”s struggle to stay alive in the Antarctic, and Triumph Over Darkness: The Life of Louis Braille (1988).In 1974 he was made a Knight of the Order of Mark Twain for his biography of Norman Borlaug, the Nobel-winning humanitarian scientist.




4 Ebooks door Lennard Bickel

Lennard Bickel: Mawson’s Will
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Bickel Lennard Bickel: Triumph Over Darkness
Born in France in 1809, Louis Braille was the fourth child of a village saddler. At the age of three, he stabbed himself in the eye with a pointed tool taken from his father’s work bench.Some thirtee …
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Bickel Lennard Bickel: Florey
It wouldn’t be for years after that fateful day when Alexander Fleming sneezed on a petri dish and stumbled upon Penicillin, that the almost miraculous power of this mould would transform the lives o …
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Lennard Bickel: This Accursed Land
Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson’s epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as ’the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration’.This Accursed La …
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