The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America Paperback – Import, 1 May 2007

Well it proved to me that Columbus was not the first to the Americas but the Yanks will never accept it.

Very interesting book, well researched and I will be reading more on the Chinese travels!

This book contains various clues as who populated this Island, a great many stories have been passed along for certain. It amazes me that the histories as we are taught in schools does not give the natives of the local area the credit it deserves. However mentions are annotated and the vast cultural differences between the inhabitants and how the perceptions between the tribes or bands see them selves. A lot can be learned from these early inhabitants and their strife for survival amongst a harsh land and the travelers who stopped temporarily before continuing in there journeys. A book filled with clues of it's inhabitants and it's visitors. Excellent read

This book tho yellowed was in good shape and a very interesting read.

Fabled in Spanish lore, antiquity's seven cities of gold are reputed to have launched the conquistadores on their successful invasions of Mexico and Peru and their materially less successful excursions into the Southwestern (Coronado) and Southeastern (de Soto) United States. In fact, both Coronado and de Soto were reputed to have been in the Arkansas River valley, one on the upper end, the other on the Mississippi end, during the same summer. In other words, the search for these cities was intense, cost a fortune to finance and resulted in the earliest known European exploration of today's lower United States.Columbus was aware of the cities and depicted them on the legend of his first map, prior to his embarking on his initial voyage. They had been long reported by many, all too many voyagers, for them not to be real, thus Spain's remarkable efforts to find them. Were they a focus of Columbus' first and subsequent voyages? No one is talking. But in all of the subsequent exploration of the New World by Russia, Spain, France, England, Portugal, and Holland, these cities, so frequently reported by Norse, Basque and Italian mariners, were never located. Like Atlantis, no one has ever found them.This book is a remarkable bit of history and archaeological sleuthing performed by the author, Paul Chiasson, a Montreal architect, who discovers a long lost ruin on Cape Breton Island, the land of his birth. It is the story of those ruins, how the author researched his findings and told his story in a manner that leaves the reader absolutely intrigued. Yes, the author concludes Cape Breton hosted the seven cities and that the ruins, in seven separate locations on the coast, are the real deal of antiquity. But there is more: The Cities were the result of a Chinese gold rush!Amazingly well done, excellently written and remarkably far reaching in its early civilization revisionist impact, one is left with the feeling that man has inhabited this planet in a technologically advanced way for a very long, long time. Of course, if you think the conclusion is simply poppycock, to bizarre to be given serious consideration, then you will just have spent some fun time reading about a forgotten place that exists whose explanation is still a mystery. Cape Breton Island and Oak Island are awfully close together. Both represent technology unavailable at the time when they were supposed to have been constructed. Hmmmm.......Talk about thinking outside the box! This is a terrific read that will make you think. Excellent, Mr. Chiasson, just excellent.