African Icons
Ten People Who Shaped History
Chapel Hill : Algonquin Young Readers, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: pages cm
"Full-color portraits illustrate the stories of ten people-rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers-who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION: WHEN AFRICA FUELED THE WORLD -- THE SAHARA YAWNS -- MENES: Creator of Dynasties -- MERNEITH: A Queen Erased -- THE DAWN OF EGYPT -- IMHOTEP: From Peasant to God -- METAL BONDS -- AESOP: The Wisest Man in the Ancient World -- ACROSS THE WAVES-- HANNIBAL BARCA: Unparalleled Military Strategist -- TERENCE: North African Playwright -- AMANIRENAS: Warrior, Diplomat, Queen -- WHERE FEW DARED TO TREAD -- TIN HINAN: Founding a City on the Dunes -- ACROSS THE GOLDEN SAND -- MANSA MUSA: The Richest Man of All Time -- THE CATALAN ATLAS -- THE POWER OF THE GRIOT -- LIBRARIES IN THE SAND -- THE WINDS CHANGE -- QUEEN IDIA: Kingmaker.
Subjects:
Africa -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Africa -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Africa -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Africa -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Africa -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Africa -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages 9-12
ISBN:
1616209003
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective African | Ballentine Indoors | Children's Biography | Out (Due: 6/6/2024) |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective African | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Children's Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.