Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491
Titre
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Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491
Charles C. Mann
Sommaire
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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.
Date de publication comme intervalle
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2009
Description matérielle
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ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Note générale
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"A Downtown Bookworks book."
A Junior Library Guild selection
Terme de vedette-matière
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First Nations -- Origin.
First Nations -- History.
First Nations
Terme géographique
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America -- Antiquities.
Résumé
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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.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
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9781416949008
Informations de publication
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New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
|---|
| Brookside | 970.01 MAN | Book | 30146000167838 | Non-Fiction |