About “Who Discovered America?”
Greatly expanding on the blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies and his co-author, Ian Hudson, uncover the complete untold history of how mankind came to populate the Americas by sea, over several millennia.
Menzies and Hudson offer a revolutionary new alternative to the traditional “Beringia” theory, (which suggests that ancient man crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age.) The authors here reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that pushes the discovery of the Americas back thousands of years. Columbus was forty thousand years late!
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The Book
A groundbreaking new book that upends our understanding of ancient America.
Conventional history tells us humans migrated on foot across present-day Alaska, populating the Americas far later than other continents.
However, emerging new evidence suggests seafarers reached the continents thousands of years earlier and developed far more sophisticated civilizations than previously imagined…
From “distinguished historian” (BBC World Service) Gavin Menzies, the author of the blockbuster New York Times bestseller 1421, comes a revolutionary new account of how the first humans came to North and South America. Menzies reveals that ancient peoples used the oceans’ natural currents and prevailing winds to make voyages across both the Atlantic and Pacific. What’s more, we now must accept that they had time to develop remarkably advanced cultures. Armed with cutting-edge DNA evidence, newly unearthed artifacts, and astonishing linguistic and archaeological discoveries, Menzies shows
- humans have been making transoceanic voyages as far back as 100,000 years ago, vastly predating the supposed overland migration to the Americas during the last Ice Age;
- the ancient South American civilizations of the Olmec and Maya in Central and South America may have had direct origins and influences from Asia;
- ancient maps held in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., show there must have been sustained and dedicated voyages to the Western Hemisphere by Chinese explorers as early as 2200 B.C.;
- huge Chinese settlements occupied (and made exploratory journeys from) Nova Scotia;
- Japanese, Korean, and even earlier European voyages likewise predated the explorations currently recorded by history.
A maverick scholar, Menzies has made a riveting new contribution to the story of humanity’s earliest explorers, revealing the truth behind one of history’s most fascinating questions: Who discovered America?
The Evidence
PART I : Across Oceans Before Columbus
Prologue – Life at Sea
Chapter 1 – A land bridge too far
Chapter 2 – Along the Silk Road
Chapter 3 – Plants Between Continents
Chapter 4 – European Seafaring, 100, 000 BC
Chapter 5 – Mastery of the Oceans Before ColumbusPART II : China in the Americas
Chapter 6 – The Genetic Evidence
Chapter 7 – In Search of Lost Civilisations
Chapter 8 – The Olmec: The Foundation Culture of Central America
Chapter 9 – Pyramids in Mexico and Central America
Chapter 10 – Pyramid builders of South AmericaPART III : China’s Explorations to the North
Chapter 11 – Kubilai Khan’s Lost Fleets
Chapter 12 – The 1418 Chinese Map of the World
Chapter 13 – North Carolina and the Virginias
Chapter 14 – The Eastern Seaboard
Chapter 15 – Nova Cataia: The Island of Seven Cities
Chapter 16 – The Pacific Coast of North America
Chapter 17 – Stone Age Sailors – The “Windover Bog” people of Florida
Conclusion – Who Discovered America?
