Guyana

by Bob Temple

Book Overview

Located along the northeast coast of South America, Guyana is the only nation on the continent in which English, not Spanish, is the official language. Most of the country's 735,000 people, who are of East Indian, African, or mixed descent, live along the swampy coastal plain in the north. This tropical land was inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Carb peoples before Dutch colonists established settlements and sugar plantations there in the early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422233006
• ISBN13: 9781422233009
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9