Title:
Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann.
ISBN:
9781416949008
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2009]
©2009
Physical Description:
ix, 117 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
General Note:
"A Downtown Bookworks book."
Contents:
1: How old was the "new world"? -- Cities in the desert -- Genetic engineering -- From Olmec to Maya -- To the land of four quarters -- 2: Why did Europe succeed? -- The great meeting -- Long, long ago -- Extinction -- Disease-free paradise? -- 3: Were the Americas really a wilderness? -- Amazonia -- Land of fire -- The created wilderness.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 8.1 5 132408
Geographic Term:
Audience:
Ages 8 up.
OCLC Number:
ocn276335321
Availability:
~0
