Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491

Título
: 
Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491

Charles C. Mann

Resumen
: 
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.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
: 
2009

Descripción física
: 
ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.

Nota general
: 
"A Downtown Bookworks book."

A Junior Library Guild selection

Término de la materia
: 
First Nations -- Origin.
 
First Nations -- History.
 
First Nations

Término geográfico
: 
America -- Antiquities.

Síntesis
: 
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.

ISBN
: 
9781416949008

Información de publicación
: 
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.


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