Bibliograph

Before Columbus, the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann

Type

Label

Before Columbus, the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Intended audience

Ages 8 up

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Before Columbus

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

276335321

Responsibility statement

Charles C. Mann

Series statement

A downtown bookworks book

Sub title

the Americas of 1491

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification