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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 1Main Title | They came before Columbus : the African presence in ancient America / | |||||||||||
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Author | Van Sertima, Ivan, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2003 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 53068001 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0812968174; 9780812968170 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Africans--America--History--To 1500 ; Indians--African influences ; Blacks--America--History ; America--Discovery and exploration--African ; America--Antiquities ; Discoveries in geography--African ; Einwanderung ; Entdeckung ; Altamerika ; Africains--Civilisations prcolombiennes ; Indiens--Influence africaine ; Noirs americains--Histoire ; Amerique--Dcouverte et exploration--Africains ; Amerique--Antiquits ; Schwarze ; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; Africains--Civilisations precolombiennes ; Noirs americains--Histoire ; Amerique--Decouverte et exploration--Africains ; Amerique--Antiquites | |||||||||||
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Edition | Random House trade pbk. ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xviii, 284 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Originally published: Ã1976. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | Introduction -- Author's note -- The secret route from Guinea -- The visible witnesses -- The mariner prince of Mali -- Africans across the sea -- Among the Quetzalcoatls -- Mandingo traders in medieval Mexico -- Black Africa and Egypt -- The black kings of the twenty-fifth dynasty -- African-Egyptian presences in ancient America -- Plants and transplants -- Smoking, tobacco, and pipes in Africa and America -- The mystery of Mu-lan-p'i -- Postscript on other finds. Examines cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans, offering evidence of the presence of African explorers in the New World centuries before the arrival of Columbus. |