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

By:

Mann, Charles C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009Edition: First Scholastic printing, October 2010Description: 116 pages : color illustrations ; color maps ; 23x23 cmISBN:

9781416949008 (reinforced) :
1416949003 (reinforced) :

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DDC classification:

970.01 22

LOC classification:

E61 .M267 2009

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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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus TTP Secondary Non-Fiction Bookshelves	Non-Fiction	CHA 970.01 E61 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	FISSE00921

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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