Runner of the Mountain Tops
Introduction '''''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. Illustrated by Lynd Ward, the biography was first published in 1939 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1940.
References
External links * Online text of ''Runner of the Mountain Tops''; available also at  A Celebration of Women Writers.