Before Columbus : The Americas of 1491 / by Charles C. Mann

By:

Mann, Charles C

Contributor(s):

Herring, Red [Book designer ]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scholastic ; 2009. Edition: First Scholastic printing, October 2010Description: 117 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780545307277

Subject(s):

Native Americans -- non-fiction

DDC classification:

970.01

LOC classification:

E61.M267

Contents:

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	MAN 970.01 E61.M267 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	FISSE00956

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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