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Journeys with Florida's Indians (UPF Young Readers Library)
Kelley G. Weitzel
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Description for Journeys with Florida's Indians (UPF Young Readers Library)
hardcover. This is an adventure into Florida's past. Young readers will meet the Paleoindians and learn about their arrival in the Americas, then join a boy on his first mammoth hunt as he escapes stampedes and the flames of a fire drive. Series: UPF Young Readers Library. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 b&w photographs, 45 drawings, glossary, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; YNM; YQH. Category: (EJ) Primary; (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 730.
Journeys with Florida's Indians launches readers in grades 4 through 8 on an adventure into Florida's past. Young readers will meet the Paleoindians and learn about their arrival in the Americas, then join a boy on his first mammoth hunt as he escapes stampedes and the flames of a fire drive. Next, readers move forward in time to meet Spanish explorers, the Timucua, the Calusa, and the Apalachee Indians-first through fact, then through fiction. They'll attend the first meeting between French explorers and the Timucua and learn how Europeans impacted Florida's Indians. Alternating factual chapters are filled with maps, historical ... Read more
Journeys with Florida's Indians launches readers in grades 4 through 8 on an adventure into Florida's past. Young readers will meet the Paleoindians and learn about their arrival in the Americas, then join a boy on his first mammoth hunt as he escapes stampedes and the flames of a fire drive. Next, readers move forward in time to meet Spanish explorers, the Timucua, the Calusa, and the Apalachee Indians-first through fact, then through fiction. They'll attend the first meeting between French explorers and the Timucua and learn how Europeans impacted Florida's Indians. Alternating factual chapters are filled with maps, historical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
UPF Young Readers Library
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813025810
SKU
V9780813025810
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Ref
99-66
About Kelley G. Weitzel
Kelley Weitzel is senior preserve naturalist at the Pelotes Island Nature Preserve. Her previous book The Timucua Indians - A Native American Detective Story (UPF, 2000) received the Florida Historical Society's Chariton Tebeau Book Award for the best general interest/youth oriented book on Florida history.
Reviews for Journeys with Florida's Indians (UPF Young Readers Library)
A marvelous account of Florida's Indians for young readers. - Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History