Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491
Record details
- ISBN: 9781416949008 (lib. bdg.) :
- ISBN: 1416949003 (lib. bdg.) :
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Physical Description:
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ix, 116 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Downtown Bookworks book" -- title page |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
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Topic Heading: | Indigenous. First Nations. |
Available copies
- 3 of 5 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Chemawawin Public Library at Easterville | E 61 .M267 2009 (Text) | 58500000729202 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
The Pas Campus Library | E 61 .M267 2009 (Text) | 58500000729228 | UCNYA | Volume hold | Available | - |
Thompson Campus Library | E 61 .M267 2009 (Text) | 58500000729210 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
UCN / Pukatawagan Public Library | E 61 .M267 2009 (Text) | 58500000729186 | Stacks | Volume hold | In transit | - |
UCN/Norway House Public Library | E 61 .M267 2009 (Text) | 58500000729194 | Stacks | Volume hold | Checked out | 2022-10-28 |
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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.