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• Title:Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann.
  
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• Author/Creator:Mann, Charles C.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Mann, Charles C. 1491, new revelations of the Americas before Columbus.
  Downtown Bookworks Inc.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: E61 .M267 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians--Origin--Juvenile literature.
  Indians--History--Juvenile literature.
  Indians--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.
  Indians--Origin.
  Indians--History.
  Indians--Antiquities.
  America--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.
  America--Antiquities.
  
• Genre/Form:Literature.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:ix, 117 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
  
• 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.
  
• Target Audience:Ages 8 up.
  
• Notes:"A Downtown Bookworks book."
  Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781416949008 (reinforced)
  1416949003 (reinforced)
  
• 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.