Written in the ruins : Cape Breton Island's second Pre-Columbian Chinese settlement / Paul Chiasson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiasson, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Nova Scotia--St. Peter's--Antiquities.

Chinese.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Nova Scotia--St. Peter's.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--Discovery and exploration--Chinese.

Cape Breton Island (N.S.).

St. Peter's (N.S.)--Antiquities.

St. Peter's (N.S.).

Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--Antiquities.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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?"--Publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781459733145

1459733142

9781459733138

1459733134

OCLC:

945609752