Product Description: Mark Twain for Dog Lovers combines one of America’s most beloved authors and dogs. Twain specialist R. Kent Rasmussen traces the history of dogs in Twain’s life—from the ones he knew personally, like his daughter’s dog which he took in after she died, to the foreign dogs he saw on his travels around the world...read more

Nineteenth-century America and the world of Samuel L. Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, come to life as children journey back in time with this history and literature-laden activity book.

Nineteenth-century America and the world of Samuel L. Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, come to life as children journey back in time with this history and literature-laden activity book.

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Profiles eight modern African political leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Haile Selassie

Describes the dwellings of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest, including the rectangular buildings of stone and clay called pueblos, underground community rooms known as kivas, and cliff dwellings, and includes directions for making a model pueblo.

Gathers more than 1,800 quotations from Twain's writings, presenting his thoughts on a broad range of topics including people he knew, places he visited, and his own books (view table of contents)

Gathers more than 1,800 quotations from Twain's writings, presenting his thoughts on a broad range of topics including people he knew, places he visited, and his own books

Covers the major region of the world, with information on such topics as physical geography, biogeography, economic geography, human geography, and natural resources. (view table of contents)