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Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 Cover Image Book

Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann.

Mann, Charles C. (Author). Mann, Charles C. 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416949008
  • ISBN: 1416949003
  • ISBN: 9780545307277
  • ISBN: 0545307279
  • Physical Description: ix, 116 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher information and pagination may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 8 up.
NC1080L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.1 5 132408.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection

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Indians > Antiquities > Juvenile literature.
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Jacksonville Main Library J970.01 MAN (Text) 36015000203378 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -
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