Pub Date: September 8, 2009
Dewey: 970.01
LCCN: 2009007691
Lexile Code: 1080
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 10.00" L x 10.10" W ( 1.90 lbs) 128 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Exploration and Discovery | Native American | Prehistoric
Series: Downtown Bookworks Books
Description: A companion book to Mann's groundbreaking bestseller "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus," this is a fascinating, full-color journey that presents the Americas as young readers have never seen them before. Full color.
Brief description: Charles C. Mann is the author of 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Keck award for the best book of the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and more. In addition to 1491, he was the co-author of four other non-fiction books. He is now working on a companion volume to 1491. His website is www.charlesmann.org.