Ms. White takes the reader on an adventure spanning millions of years. She starts with the first finds of cave man life, then transports the reader back to early days of man. A time when all the world was bad and a piece of flint was all that kept you alive. The reader feels the rush of the 19th century rock hounds and the fear of 7 million year old Java man, all in one book. Though dated, it fired the imagination of a young boy, and showed him that reading could also be fun.

61 World Titles:
The First Men in the World by Anne Terry White
Alexander the Great by John Gunther
Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo by Richard J. Walsh
Joan of Arc by Nancy Wilson Ross
King Arthur and His Knights by Mabel Louise Robinson
Mary, Queen of Scots by Emily Hahn
Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo by Frances Winwar
Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Richard L. Neuberger
The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen by Pearl S. Buck
The Battle of Britain by Quentin James Reynolds
The Crusades by Anthony West
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde by Harold Lamb
Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada by Frances Winwar
Simón Bolívar: The Great Liberator by Arnold Whitridge
The Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of Toussaint Louverture by Katharine Scherman
The Story of Scotland Yard by Laurence Victor Thompson
The Life of Saint Patrick by Quentin James Reynolds
The Exploits of Xenophon by Geoffrey Household
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas by Armstrong Sperry
Marie Antoinette by Bernardine Kielty
Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater by Anne Terry White
The French Foreign Legion by Wyatt Blassingame
Martin Luther by Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Hudson's Bay Company by Richard Morenus
Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador by Felix Riesenberg, Jr.
The Magna Charta by James Daugherty
Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn
General Brock and Niagara Falls by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Catherine the Great by Katharine Scherman
The Fall of Constantinople by Bernardine Kielty
Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner by Seymour Gates Pond
Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy by Marcia Davenport
The Story of Albert Schweitzer by Anita Daniel
The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom by Hodding Carter
Famous Pirates of the New World by A. B. C. Whipple
Exploring the Himalaya by William O. Douglas
Queen Victoria by Noel Streatfeild
The Flight and Adventures of Charles II by Charles Norman
Chief of the Cossacks by Harold Lamb
The Adventures of Ulysses by Gerald Gottlieb
William the Conqueror by Thomas B. Costain
Jesus of Nazareth by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Julius Caesar by John Gunther
The Story of Australia by A. Grove Day
Captain Cortés Conquers Mexico by William Weber Johnson
Florence Nightingale by Ruth Fox Hume
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer
The Story of Atomic Energy by Laura Fermi
Great Men of Medicine by Ruth Fox Hume
Cleopatra of Egypt by Leonora Hornblow
The Sinking of the Bismarck by William L. Shirer
Lawrence of Arabia by Alistair MacLean
The Life of Saint Paul by Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Voyages of Henry Hudson by Eugene Rachlis
Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson by A. B. C. Whipple
Winston Churchill by Quentin James Reynolds
The War in Korea by Robert Leckie
Walter Raleigh: Man of Two Worlds by Henrietta Buckmaster
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne
Flying Aces of World War I by Gene Gurney
The Commandos of World War II by Hodding Carter
Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel by Joan Comay
The United Nations in War and Peace by T. R. Fehrenbach