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Author:

Menzies, Gavin, author.

Title:

Who discovered America? : the untold history of the peopling of the Americas / Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

William Morrowan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Explorers--America--History.
Explorers--North America--History.
America--Pre-Columbian.--Pre-Columbian.
America--Chinese.--Chinese.
North America--Discovery and exploration.
Bering Land Bridge.
Ocean travel--History.
America--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Hudson, Ian, 1979- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-284) and index.

Contents:

Timeline of world civilizaitons -- Across oceans before Columbus. Life at sea ; A land bridge too far ; Along the Silk Road ; Plants between continents ; European seafaring, 100,000 B.C. ; Mastery of the oceans before Columbus -- China in the Americas. The genetic evidence ; In search of lost civilizaions ; The Olmec : the foundation culture of Cnetral America ; Pyramids in mexico and Central America ; Pyramid builders of South America -- China's explorations to the north.Kublai Khan's lost fleets ; The 1418 Chinese map of the world ; North Carolina and the virginias ; The Eastern Seaboard ; Nova Cataia : the island of seven cities ; The Pacific Coast of North America ; Stone Age sailors : the "Windover Bog" people of Florida -- Who discovered America?

Summary:

Combining in-depth research with an adventurer's spirit to present a radical rethinking and new revelations relating to the Beringia theory of how humans discovered, explored, and settled the American continent.

ISBN:

006223675X
9780062236753

OCLC:

(OCoLC)827260052

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

DJPD353 -- Hampton Public Library (Hampton)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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ELPC715 -- Paullina Public Library (Paullina)

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LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

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GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)