The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides by Daniel Minter, Susan Reynolds

The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides

Daniel Minter, Susan Reynolds with Susan Reynolds (Illustrator)

32 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction sports emotional informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Twenty-five hundred years ago Greek soldiers faced the Persian army on the plain of Marathon. Pheidippides ran to neighboring Sparta, 140 miles away, to ask for the Spartans' aid. Afterwards he sped back to the battle, where he helped defeat the e...

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