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Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491

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

Print Book, English, ©2009
1st ed
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, ©2009