| Did Columbus first discover America?Did the Vikings | | | | present-day USA and Canada, there were between |
| first discover America?Did the Chinese first discover | | | | 1000 and 2000 family tribes, most eking out a |
| America?No, in truth the American continent was first | | | | subsistence lifestyle by hunting, whilst living in tents |
| discovered between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago by | | | | and temporary settlements as they followed the |
| bands of roving hunters from the Siberian steppes, | | | | wandering herds.2) throughout the central part of the |
| who made the lonely trek across to the previously | | | | continent and on the eastern part of South America |
| unknown continent during the last Great Ice Age | | | | these same tribes had joined together into civilized |
| when the sea level fell enough to expose a narrow | | | | groups who lived in stone-built cities where the |
| causeway that acted as a bridge between the two | | | | landscape was dominated by huge temples, the |
| continents.No signs have yet been found of any | | | | scene of fearsome rituals where the citizens were |
| human habitation on the continent before these | | | | largely kept in obedience under threat of human |
| times so it must be assumed that they arrived to | | | | sacrifice.3) and finally, on the Caribbean Islands and |
| find an uninhabited land. With no real threats and a | | | | around the deltas of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, |
| landscape teeming with wildlife they decided to stay, | | | | a third group had settled, on the whole peacefully, |
| though they didn't have much choice in the matter as | | | | though even amongst some of these tribes |
| before long the waters rose as the Ice Age drew to | | | | cannibalism was still practised.There they had lived for |
| a close and quite literally cut them off from their | | | | more than 10,000 years, unable to get back in touch |
| friends and family back in Asia.With no boats and no | | | | with the rest of the world. In fact they probaby no |
| chance of retreat, at least not until the next Ice Age | | | | longer even remembered there was any more to the |
| (which hasn't started yet!), they must have decided | | | | world beyond their continent. But their isolation was |
| to make the most of their new-found home, which | | | | not to continue and this book tells the fascinating |
| just happened to be a continent so huge it spanned | | | | story of how this long-lost continent was finally |
| the two poles and contained every type of | | | | rediscovered and of how it once more became a real |
| landscape imaginable, from rugged mountains and | | | | and living part of the known world.This excerpt is |
| steaming volcanoes to parched deserts and hidden | | | | taken from the first chapter of Discovery - The |
| valleys, from endless wide-open plains to dank, dense | | | | Story of America by Anthony Treasure. This book is |
| jungles, and from frozen snow-bound tundra to idyllic | | | | already published in the UK (listed on Amazon.co.uk) |
| tropical islands.Fortunately these hunters must have | | | | and is due to be published in the US at a later date. |
| taken their females along for the trek and over the | | | | For now it is published as an ebook and as a |
| centuries they spread and multiplied, so much so that | | | | SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER Discovery Part |
| by 1500AD, when they were finally discovered by | | | | One is available to download COMPLETELY FREE OF |
| the rest of humanity, there were upwards of 10 | | | | CHARGE. Three further titles - Discovery Part Two, |
| million natives spread across all parts of the | | | | Colonization Part One and Colonization Part Two are |
| continent.These indigenous tribes by that time had | | | | also out as ebooks and can be bought and |
| settled into 3 rough groups:1) to the north, in | | | | downloaded from the website. |