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

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

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Who discovered America? : the untold history of the peopling of the Americas
Title
Who discovered America?
Title remainder
the untold history of the peopling of the Americas
Statement of responsibility
Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Language
eng
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
Tone
Writing style
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10220663
Cataloging source
BTCTA
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Menzies, Gavin
Dewey number
970.01/1
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
E103
LC item number
.M46 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1979-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Hudson, Ian
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True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Explorers
  • Explorers
  • Ocean travel
  • America
  • America
  • North America
  • Bering Land Bridge
  • America
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the untold history of the peopling of the Americas
Label
Who discovered America? : the untold history of the peopling of the Americas, Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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 mMexico 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?
Control code
996431
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780062236753
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780062236753
  • (OCoLC)827260052
Label
Who discovered America? : the untold history of the peopling of the Americas, Gavin Menzies, Ian Hudson
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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 mMexico 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?
Control code
996431
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780062236753
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780062236753
  • (OCoLC)827260052

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