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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Literature History Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mann, Charles C. Before Columbus. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2009 (OCoLC)741868804 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles C Mann; Rebecca Stefoff; Downtown Bookworks Inc. |
ISBN: | 1416949003 9781416949008 |
OCLC Number: | 276335321 |
Notes: | "A Downtown Bookworks book." Includes glossary. |
Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010 |
Target Audience: | Ages 8 up.; Middle School.; 1080 |
Description: | ix, 117 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm |
Contents: | 1: How old was the "new world"? -- Cities in the desert -- Genetic engineering -- From Olmec to Maya -- To the land of four quarters -- 2: Why did Europe succeed? -- The great meeting -- Long, long ago -- Extinction -- Disease-free paradise? -- 3: Were the Americas really a wilderness? -- Amazonia -- Land of fire -- The created wilderness. |
Series Title: | A downtown bookworks book |
Responsibility: | Charles C. Mann ; [adapted by Rebecca Stefoff]. |
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Abstract:
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
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