Russell Freedman, a famous author, wrote the book Who was First? Discovering the Americas . In the year 2007 Freedman wrote the book Who was First? Discovering the Americas. Still Freedman prevailed to be a magnificent author and with his marvelous talents, he would take you back in time and put you, “face to face with Abraham Lincoln, dancer Martha Graham, or Chinese philosopher Confucious” (Library Point, n. d.). Many generations of people grew up learning that Columbus was the first in the Americas’, but this book justifies us otherwise. The book Who was First? Discovering the Americas is a non-fictional book that gives you scientists’ research that could conceivably validate who was first in the Americas. In grade school, we all are
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The great admiral, Zheng He, led this voyage. Nevertheless Zheng’s armada took sail, staying along the coast, until they got to Kenya, although a well documented trip we still don’t know where they progressed from there. “Gavin Menzies, a retired British Navy commander and self-taught historian”, (Page 25) believe that Zheng's armada rounded the Southern tip of Africa and headed across the Atlantic Ocean to unearth treasure and map uncharted coasts. Unquestionably Menzie argues his case by saying that Waldseemuller, a Chinese cartographer, had composed a map of the San Francisco Bay in 1507, although San Francisco Bay wasn’t supposedly originated by European explorers until 1569. Also Menzie has evidence that a tower in Newport, Rhode Island, although called a chapel from the monks or an Indian lookout, many people, including Menzie, have conceived that this diminutive composition of architecture has a striking resemblance of a Chinese lighthouse built on the southern tip of China. Then Freedman yet again tells us this may not have even been the first people in the
The great admiral, Zheng He, led this voyage. Nevertheless Zheng’s armada took sail, staying along the coast, until they got to Kenya, although a well documented trip we still don’t know where they progressed from there. “Gavin Menzies, a retired British Navy commander and self-taught historian”, (Page 25) believe that Zheng's armada rounded the Southern tip of Africa and headed across the Atlantic Ocean to unearth treasure and map uncharted coasts. Unquestionably Menzie argues his case by saying that Waldseemuller, a Chinese cartographer, had composed a map of the San Francisco Bay in 1507, although San Francisco Bay wasn’t supposedly originated by European explorers until 1569. Also Menzie has evidence that a tower in Newport, Rhode Island, although called a chapel from the monks or an Indian lookout, many people, including Menzie, have conceived that this diminutive composition of architecture has a striking resemblance of a Chinese lighthouse built on the southern tip of China. Then Freedman yet again tells us this may not have even been the first people in the