MacLeish, William H. THE DAY BEFORE AMERICA. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 1st edition. 277 pp., green cloth spine, paper-covered boards. Illustrated by Will Bryant. A fascinating history of North America before the coming of the Europeans who gave the land that name. Examines the relationship between the landscape, nature, and man from the ice ages to the coming of the Europeans. Fine in dust jacket.