Who Discovered America?
The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
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.
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. The genetic evidence ; In search of lost civilizations ; The 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 ; 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 -- Conclusion: Who discovered America?
Subjects:
Explorers -- America -- History.
Explorers -- North America -- History.
Ocean travel -- History.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese.
North America -- Discovery and exploration.
Bering Land Bridge.
America -- Antiquities.
Explorers -- America -- History.
Explorers -- North America -- History.
Ocean travel -- History.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese.
North America -- Discovery and exploration.
Bering Land Bridge.
America -- Antiquities.
ISBN:
9780062236753
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Exploration Americas Men | Main (Downtown) | Display - First Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY Exploration Americas Men | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-284) and index.