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New York : Listening Library, 2007. |
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9780739361641 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 0739361643 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK |
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Downloadable audiobooks.
Explorers -- America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian -- Juvenile literature.
Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 1:45:14. Read by L.J. Ganser. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 25209 KB) Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Newbery Medalist and Sibert Award-winning author Russell Freedman provides a look at America's early history in this fact-filled nonfiction audiobook. Leading children's nonfiction author, Russell Freedman, offers an account of the assorted adventurers, explorers, and nomads who have been credited with "discovering America," including Christopher Columbus, Lief Eriksson, and the Chinese admiral Zheng He. This audiobook will acquaint listeners with the rich variety of America's early history and with the way historians have gathered and recorded information throughout the ages, as well as the implications of "discovering" inhabited areas. |
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Before Columbus -- Admiral of the ocean sea -- Did China discover America? -- Leif the lucky -- The not-so-new world -- Who really discovered America? |
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