For Children

Author	Mann, Charles C.
Title	Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann.
Publication Info.	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.

Location	Call No.	Status
Children's Non-Fiction	Juv. 970.1 M	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Note	"A Downtown Bookworks book."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index.
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.
Subject	Indians -- Origin -- Juvenile literature.
	Indians -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Indians -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
	America -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author	Mann, Charles C. 1491, new revelations of the Americas before Columbus.
Added Title	Americas of 1491
	Americas of Fourteen ninety-one
ISBN	9781416949008 (reinforced)
	1416949003 (reinforced)

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