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Author Chiasson, Paul, author.

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

Publication Info. Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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.
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Subject Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese.
Chinese -- Nova Scotia -- St. Peter's -- Antiquities.
Chinese.
Nova Scotia -- St. Peter's.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Nova Scotia -- St. Peter's.
St. Peter's (N.S.) -- Antiquities.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867).
Chinese -- Antiquities.
Discoveries in geography -- Chinese.
Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version:Chiasson, Paul. Written in the ruins.: Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, 2016 (CaOONL)20159066786
Print version: Chiasson, Paul. Written in the ruins. Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, [2016] 1459733126 9781459733121 (DLC) 2016387199 (OCoLC)925399277
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