Explore North America! Take a look at the continent's countries, people, cities, plants, animals, farming and industry, transportation, and leisure activities.
Brimming with fascinating insight (Who is the highest-paid public employee in each state?) and whimsical discovery (Where can you visit the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?), this book highlights the ...
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Uses maps, text, and illustrations to present the history of North America from the first settlers to cross the Bering Straits to the spread of American culture in the 1990s
America's long romance with the train has been the subject of many books, but none has used contemporary maps to comprehensively illustrate the story. Until now. Here the latest of...
T h e A tac am a D e se rt, in n o rth ern C h ile , is th e d riest p lac e o n E arth . • A rea s in S o u th A m erica w ith a tro p ical clim a te m a y re ceiv e m o re th an 8 0 in ch e s (2 m ete rs) o f ra in ea ch y ea r.
Provides maps, timelines, facts, and trivia on the provinces of Canada, the states of the United States and Mexico, the countries of Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean.
... The large-format (12 1/4by 18 1/4 inches) atlas begins with a section of continent thematic maps thattreat such topics as geology, climate, and minerals. ... The remainder of the book is divided into 13 broad geographic areas.
The early form of maize found at Bat Cave, called Zea mays, had been domesticated from its wild ancestor, teosinte (Zea mexicana), as early as 5000 b.c., somewhere in the highlands of southeastern Mexico. The grain reached the Southwest ...
Traces the history of North America from the first appearance of man to 1870, with maps showing the development of native civilization, the arrival of European settlers, and the formative years of the U.S.
The classic system maps produced by the railroads of the day, collected for the first time in this volume, offer a sweeping view of the industry’s remarkable reach in the period of its greatest power.