Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water,...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 7
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a famous archaeologist and entrusted with a sacred Incan relic, a Chicago construction worker helps an absentminded professor and his beautiful daughter find an ancient lost city before a group of evil treasure hunters find it first.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Bear & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The real history of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled to the Americas long before 1492. Provides more than 300 photographs and drawings, including Celtic runes in New England, Gaelic inscriptions in Colorado, and Asian symbols in the West. Reinterprets many archaeological finds, such as the Ohio Serpent Mound. Reveals Celtic, Hebrew, Roman, early Christian, Templar, Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese influences in...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request