The Island of Seven Cities
Subtitle: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780312361860
Subjects: Archaeology; Asia - China; Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867); History / Canada; North American; History; History - General History; Cape Breton Island; Cape Breton Island (N.S.); Chiasson, Paul; Description and travel; Nova Scotia; Travel; History: World
First sentence: FROM MY CHAIR in the front row, I looked around the Mumford Room of the Library of Congress in Washington at an assembly of people who were about to sit in judgment of me.