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Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann. |
| Authors: | Mann, Charles C. |
| Call number: | j970.01 MAN |
| Publisher: | New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009. |
| Publication date: | c2009. |
| Subject: |
Indians -- Origin.
Indians -- History. Indians -- Antiquities. Juvenile literature. America -- Antiquities. |
| Title: | Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm. |
| Target audience note: | Ages 8 up. |
| Notes: | "A Downtown Bookworks book." |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index. |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2011-2012, 6-8 Nominee. A Junior Library Guild selection |
| ISBN: | 9781416949008 (reinforced) : 1416949003 (reinforced) : |
| LCCN: | 2009007691 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1220667 |
| Bib No.: | 1220667 |