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Popolo dotato di grande fierezza, forza d'animo e spiritualità, gli Apache sono diventati leggendari per la loro audacia, per le rigorose tattiche di combattimento e per lo straordinario complesso di leggende e rituali misteriosi che li avvolgeva. Una figura in particolare ha incarnato tutti Questi aspetti: Lozen, leader spirituale, sciamana e temibile guerriera. Mentre la maggior parte delle donne del suo tempo rimanevano nei villaggi ad accu...

Immerse readers in the gripping mysteries of the world's sea floors, from the surprising creatures of the Galapagos Rift to the devastating tsunamis of the Java Trench. Feature articles cover related high-interest topics, such as giant squids, magnetic fields, and plate tectonics.

Journey from Death Valley, the lowest point in North America, to the Libyan desert, the hottest on Earth, where temperatures can reach 136 degrees Fahrenheit, to Antarctica's vast polar deserts, which have not had ice cover for thousands of years. Feature articles cover rattlesnakes, condors, the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, and other intriguing topics.

The Extreme Earth invites readers on a globe-spanning tour of superlative mountain formations, from block mountains to volcanic sea mountains to high-altitude-landform "sky islands." Briskly written text directs students' attention to the complexity of these peaks, their changing nature, and related environmental issues.

TWO OF AMERICAN HISTORY’ S MOST BRILLIANT WARRIORS– AND FIERCEST ENEMIES– COME ALIVE " An invaluable addition to western history." – Evan Connell, author of Son of the Morning Star " Written like fine historical fiction, but substantial, substantive, enlightening." – Kirkus Reviews This captivating dual biography chronicles the lives and battles of two of America’ s most famous warriors, the legendary Apache shaman, Geronimo, and the nation’ s...

Geronimo and Gen. George Crook were born to destroy one another. Their bitter struggle during the Apache wars -- the last and longest running of the North American Indian wars -- was one of the most dramatic confrontations in the history of the American West. Geronimo, an Apache shaman, made a religion of revenge and fought on long past hope and reason, ultimately becoming both the whites' most hated foe and a romanticized symbol of Indian res...