Del Norte Public Library

Reprinted in 1959 with preface by Margaret Mead.

Compares and contrasts the development of humankind in the old world and the new between 15,000 B.C. and 1500 A.D., and cites climate, domesticable animals, and hallucinogenic plants as the reasons for the discrepancy.

Refutes Afrocentrist claims that historical figures like Socrates and Cleopatra were black, and that the ancient Greek philosophers stole their ideas from the Egyptians, discussing the lack of evidence to support what the author calls the myths about ancient history, and looking at where the ideas originated, and why they are being perpetuated in schools and throughout society.

Examines the people of the world and their unique cultures, religions, languages, geography and politics.

From the golden age of polar exploration comes the astonishing untold story of Minik, a young Eskimo boy from northwestern Greenland, brought to New York in 1897 by the American explorer Robert Peary. Minik, along with his father and four others, was presented to the American Museum of Natural History as one of six Eskimo "specimens." Four members of the group, including Minik's father, quickly died of exposure to strains of influenza to which they...