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

Title:

ISBN:

9780062236753

Personal Author:

Menzies, Gavin

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]

Physical Description:

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

Contents:

Timeline of world civilizations -- Across oceans before Columbus. Prologue: 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. Genetic evidence ; In search of lost civilizations ; Olmec : the foundation culture of Central America ; Pyramids in Mexico and Central America ; Pyramid builders of South America -- China's explorations to the north. Kublai Khan's lost fleets ; 1418 Chinese map of the world ; North Carolina and the Virginias ; Eastern Seaboard ; Nova Cataia : the island of seven cities ; Pacific Coast of North America ; Stone Age sailors : the "Windover Bog" people of Florida -- Conclusion: 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.

Geographic Term:

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese

North America -- Discovery and exploration

Bering Land Bridge

America -- Antiquities

Subject Term:

Explorers--America -- History.

Explorers--North America -- History.

Ocean travel -- History.

Added Author:

Hudson, Jan