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Additional Physical Format: | Chiasson, Paul. Written in the ruins. (CaOONL)20159066794 Online version: Chiasson, Paul. Written in the ruins. Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, 2016 (OCoLC)925399154 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Chiasson |
ISBN: | 9781459733121 1459733126 9781459733138 1459733134 9781459733145 1459733142 |
OCLC Number: | 925399277 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction 2017 (Canada) |
Description: | 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The ruins on the shore -- Rovers of the sea -- The ruins on Mount Grenville -- The mark of an ancient canal -- A cannon from the past -- The adventures of David Ingram -- The treasure fleets -- A culture forgotten -- History through a new lens -- History takes a turn -- Nicolo Zeno of Venice -- Evolution of a myth -- The Zeno stories come of age -- The battle for history -- Myth becomes history. |
Responsibility: | Paul Chiasson. |
Abstract:
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?
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- Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese.
- 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.
- Cap-Breton, Île du (N.-É.) -- Découverte et exploration -- Chinois.
- Chinois.
- Fouilles (Archéologie)
- St. Peter's (N.-É.) -- Antiquités.
- Cap-Breton, Île du (N.-É.) -- Antiquités.
- Antiquities.
- Chinese -- Antiquities.
- Discoveries in geography -- Chinese.
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.
- Nova Scotia -- St. Peter's.