The Story of Mankind
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Book Description
Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily, the bestowers of the very first Newbery Medal in 1922 thought so, too. The warm, personable tone of Hendrik Willem van Loon's writing lends itself to true learning in a way that stern, dry textbooks never do. In the introduction, he describes climbing a t... More
Book Information
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Binding | Paperback (114 editions) |
Reading Level | Young Adults |
# of Pages | 640 |
ISBN-10 | 0871401568 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0871401564 |
Publication Date | 11/1994 |
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