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64 pp.
| National |
January, 2008 |
LibraryISBN 978-1-4263-0201-5$27.90
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4-6Countries of the World series.
In addition to the customary information upper-elementary report writers seek--climate, culture, history, government, etc.--this book provides interesting additional tidbits, such as a sidebar about a nine-hundred-year-old salt mine now used as a concert hall (though, perhaps deliberately, some of the book's more controversial historical info is glossed over). Many photographs and maps illustrate the information. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind.