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High-tech warfare

air, land & sea
1992
Text and photographs present modern weaponry of land, sea, and air combat forces around the world.

Pocahontas

1995
Profiles the young Native American woman who intervened with her people to save the Jamestown colony from starvation and exposure.

Mammoth bones and broken stones

the mystery of North America's first people
2010
Examines archaeological evidence of humans in North America, considering the various groups who might have been first on the continent.

Exploring the new world

2009
From the Vikings to Henry Hudson, the great explorers sailed across uncharted waters during the Age of Discovery in search of many things including adventure and wealth.

A voyage long and strange

on the trail of vikings, conquistadors, lost colonists, and other adventurers in early America
2008
Presents a comprehensive examination of North American history between Columbus's landing in 1492 and the founding of Jamestown in 1607; and describes the explorations by the Vikings, French, Moorish slaves, and Spanish conquistadors.

A great and noble scheme

the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland
2005
Chronicles the history of the French Acadians, the French-speaking Catholic inhabitants of eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, and their expulsion by the colonial governments of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, which lasted from 1755 to 1763.

Exploration of North America

2005
Describes the tools used by the explorers of North America, daily life on explorers' ships, the reasons explorers came to the New World, and the impact of their discoveries on world history, and includes a recipe for sea biscuits, a time line, a quiz, and a further reading list.

Northeastern America

1989
Discusses the plant and animal life of the northeastern area of the North American continent and its interaction with the environment.

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