More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection
Posted on Monday, December 5th, 2011
A new book by Charlotte Harris Rees, Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus: More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection, is due out in early December. This is to announce pre-release sales through the web site www.AsiaticFathers.com. All purchases through the web site will be shipped in USPS Priority Mail envelopes just as soon as Charlotte gets her supply of books. If you are in the USA, please order right away to make sure you receive yours in time for Christmas.
We will also rapidly ship international orders. All books will be autographed.
With the release of this new book, high definition professional color photos of the entire Harris Map Collection are also being shown publicly for the first time. Because of limitations of the publisher, only a few of the maps are shown in Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus and those are in black and white. However, a CD containing 117 beautiful professional photos of the Harris Maps is offered for sale exclusively on www.AsiaticFathers.com. By having a CD it allows one to zoom in on every part of any map. For full understanding of the new book, we suggest that you also order a CD. There is a substantial discount if you click the icon on the order page to purchase both the book and CD together.
Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus: More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection explains their historical setting and many interesting details including love notes, internationally volatile data, and state secrets found on the maps in the Harris collection. This book contains numerous “bomb shells” such as the revelation that currently the oldest positively dated map of the Ch’onhado/Tian Xia style is in a Chinese book, not Korean, as previously supposed. Other “bombshells” include a sequoia tree (native to America) depicted as the “Fu Sang Tree” on the American coastline and also details on the world map that speak to current global warming.
Though the Harris Maps themselves are in seven Korean atlases of various dates, thought to be from the 15th through 19th centuries, the author demonstrates that most Asian maps of that era descended from Chinese maps.
A third century Chinese text mentioned an incident in the 18th century BC involving a world map of the Ch’onhado/Tian Xia style. The source document for the world map is from around 2000 BC and discussed in accurate detail a beautiful land (Fu Sang) to the east of China. The map shows Fu Sang on the American coastline.
Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus references all the maps in the Harris atlases including a map of Japan which is a copy of the earliest complete printed map of Japan known to exist. In the Harris collection is also a fascinating map of Okinawa which was reportedly only used from 1471 to 1521.
The more modern 1602 Ricci Chinese world map reached Korea in 1603, and yet Koreans through the 19th century continued to revere the strange, round Ch’onhado world maps such as those found in the Harris Collection. In an era when modern Western thought was encroaching on Asia, Chinese and Japanese progressed to more modern maps, but Koreans preferred isolation and antique maps. Subsequently this helped to preserve these copies.
Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus: More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection is the sequel to Secret Maps of the Ancient World. If you have not yet read Secret Maps of the Ancient World, we suggest that you read that book first.
Check the order page on the web site for special promotion prices of Charlotte’s books and the CD. Only a few are left of the original 1000 copies of the abridged The Asiatic Fathers of America. Elsewhere on the web, used copies of that book are listed for hundreds of dollars. Get your copy while supplies last.
If you are ordering for shipment outside the USA, be sure to click the extra $10 icon at the bottom of the order page to cover the cost for international shipping. Otherwise, your order will be delayed until you do that.
