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Hans Olav Lien.
The Discovery of America: The Deception of the Millennium.
Published Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, Inc., 2008.
ISBN 9781409210566.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: not stated.
Size: 152x228x35mm.
Page count: viii,553pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this is an ex-display copy so shows some evidence of handling: some mild scuffs and marks on the covers, spine slightly curved, etc. in other respects unused.

This item £20.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 862g.

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No medieval emphasis, though includes plenty of incidental medieval material. Assembles a wide range of material suggestive of pre-Columbian contact with the Americas.

Contents: America before historical times; Seamanship of the ancients; Coins on a wrong continent; European copper-rush in the Great Lakes; Visit reports of the travelers; Chinese America voyagers; Underground cultures; World empires; Mexican riddles; Mysterious Tiwanaku; Gods on the move; American discovery of Eurasia; The academic armor; The discovery of Columbus.

Notes: no
Tables: 1
Illustrations: monochrome, throughout
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 57pp
Index: yes

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