Most people do not know that for 5000 years, until as recently as the 18th century, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys were home to well organized, highly advanced civilizations. American Indians built huge geometrical structures to precisely related dimensions across distances of hundreds of miles. They lived in cities such as Balbansha, near present-day New Orleans, that were filled with carefully planned buildings, plazas, and streets. And they walked on highways like the Great Hope Road, a causeway for religious pilgrims ...
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Most people do not know that for 5000 years, until as recently as the 18th century, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys were home to well organized, highly advanced civilizations. American Indians built huge geometrical structures to precisely related dimensions across distances of hundreds of miles. They lived in cities such as Balbansha, near present-day New Orleans, that were filled with carefully planned buildings, plazas, and streets. And they walked on highways like the Great Hope Road, a causeway for religious pilgrims that was begun in the 13th century. In describing their discovery by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other Founding Fathers, this book holds a mirror to distant and recent ancestors, as well as to deeply ingrained misconceptions about the past of the American continent.
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Fair. Used book-May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0029173078. B & W Reproductions; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 350 pages; 1994 Free Press HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket. Small remainder mark bottom edge. Dust jacket a trifle rubbed at edges and surfaces. Illustrated with b&w portrait and map and view reproductions. Tiny red smudge to fore edge of the page block. VG+/VG+
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Small 4to. Quarter ivory cloth with green spine lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 372pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. This superbly tight and bright first edition is inscribed and signed large and bold in black fineline on half-title page "for Bob and Ibby / from / RKennedy." Often described as a polymath, Kennedy (1926-2011) was a strange mixture of historian, television producer and museum administrator, directing the National Museum of American History and then the National Park Service. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago civic and business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist. For some reason, signed copies of this title rarely surface.
