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64 pp.
| Lerner/Runestone
| April, 2001
|
LibraryISBN 0-8225-3223-9$$25.26
(4)
4-6
Cities Through Time series.
Illustrated by
Ray Webb.
These books deliver what their titles promise by a combination of readable text, archival photos and drawings, boxed quotations, and static illustrations. The books consider lower classes as well as middle and upper. Background artwork often creates a problem for textual legibility, but generally these are accurate, brief surveys of the cities and the culture that has evolved in each. Time lines are appended. Bib., ind.