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Menzies, Gavin.

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

First edition.

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

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.

Explorers -- America -- History.

Ocean travel -- History.

Explorers -- North America -- History.

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian.

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese.

Bering Land Bridge.

America -- Antiquities.

North America -- Discovery and exploration.

Hudson, Ian, 1979-

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.

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?

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