Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz is a children's biography of Louis Agassiz, the nineteenth-century paleontologist and natural scientist, by Mabel Robinson. It tells his life story from his boyhood in Switzerland to his professorship at Harvard.[1] Illustrated by Lynd Ward, the biography was first published in 1939 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1940.[2]
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edit- Online text of Runner of the Mountain Tops; available also at A Celebration of Women Writers.
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