Paul Chiasson

Written in the Ruins

Cape Breton Island's Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement

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Produktbeschreibung

Written in the Ruins investigates the ruins at St. Peters, in the southern part of Cape Breton Island, where amazing evidence supports a wild theory that could answer all the questions raised by the island's curious, unresolved history: was it settled by the Chinese long before Europeans arrived?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781459733121
• ISBN-10: 1459733126
• Artikelnr.: 42993480

Autorenporträt

Paul Chiasson is the author of The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America, a book that explores the possibility that early Chinese explorers settled in the Cape Dauphin area of Cape Breton years before Columbus made his famous voyage. He lives in Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

[CONTENTS] Prologue: A Shipwreck's Tale Introduction: The Path to the
Second City Part One: The Second City 1 The Ruins on the Shore 2 Rovers of
the Sea 3 The Ruins on Mount Grenville 4 The Mark of an Ancient Canal 5 A
Cannon from the Past Part Two: Rovers of the Sea 6 The Adventures of David
Ingram 7 The Treasure Fleets 8 A Culture Forgotten 9 History through a New
Lens Part Three: History Derailed 10 History Takes a Turn 11 Nicolo Zeno of
Venice 12 Evolution of a Myth 13 The Zeno Stories Come of Age 14 The Battle
for History 15 Myth Becomes History Epilogue: Attend to the Original Facts
Acknowledgements Notes Selected Bibliography Index