01531cam a2200337 4500 394797058 TxAuBib 20191015120000.0 090219s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009007691 9781416949008 reinforced $24.99 1416949003 reinforced $24.99 (OCoLC)276335321 TxAuBib Mann, Charles C. Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491 / Charles C. Mann. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009. ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm. "A Downtown Bookworks book.". Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index. 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. Ages 8 up. 20191015. A Junior Library Guild selection. Indians Origin Juvenile literature. Indians History Juvenile literature. Indians Antiquities Juvenile literature. America Antiquities Juvenile literature. TXFLO