Chasing Dragons: The True History of the Piasa - Brossura

Nickless, Mr. Mark E.; Bonner-Nickless, Ms. Laurie L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1480138746 ISBN 13: 9781480138742

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

While exploring the Mississippi River in 1673 Pere Marquette came upon an awesome sight-two great dragons painted upon a towering bluff near present-day St. Louis. The intrepid father reported that “...no savage is their author; for good painters in France would find it difficult to paint so well...”

Marquette was right, for the painting-later to become known as the Piasa-was executed by skilled men of Admiral Zheng He’s legendary Treasure Fleet.

In CHASING DRAGONS the authors uncover the true history of the Piasa directly from the earliest records, including an almost forgotten written Chinese account of an incredible voyage to America in 1433!

FROM THE BACK COVER:

In 1433, Imperial China ruled the seas. The God-chief of Cahokia ruled the lands along the Father of Waters. And, the Piasa was about to be created where the destinies of these two empires would collide on the banks of the Mississippi. By the time the second half of the 1400's dawned, the Piasa stood alone as a testament to the dangers of "unintended" consequences, in a world changed forever.

In the 1673, Father Marquette & Jolliet were the first Europeans to record seeing the Piasa, and in the 1840's, Henry Lewis included its image in his book on the American frontier. By 1856, it would be gone forever, a victim of the fledgling United States of America's passionate pursuit of westward expansion.

For the first time in 600 years, remarkable evidence has been uncovered which explains how the long-forgotten, tragic events behind the creation of this enigmatic artifact and its eventual destruction are an integral part of the string of events that created the world we know today...

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L'autore:

In 2004, Mark Nickless and his wife, Laurie Bonner-Nickless, started work on what would later come to be known as the “Piasa Project,” with an article called “Was the Piasa, in Fact, a Chinese Dragon?” published in Outdoor Guide Magazine. Since then, they have presented papers & lectures at international conferences in Nanjing, China (2005), and Melaka, Malaysia(2010), and were invited guest lecturers at a gathering at the Royal Geographic Society in London (2012). Mr. Nickless received a B.A. in Education, in 1976, from Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis, Missouri. He has worked for more than twenty years teaching in special education. Mr. Nickless is a Mensan who is a current member of Missouri Outdoor Communicators. He is happiest when paddling his kayak in pursuit of chain pickerel or wet-wading an Ozark trout stream. Ms. Bonner-Nickless received an A. S. in Cinematography, from Moorpark College, in Moorpark, California, in 1983, and a B. S. in Telecommunications from Southwest Baptist University, in Bolivar, Missouri, in 1990. Both degrees were pursued with a heavy emphasis on writing for those mediums. Ms. Bonner-Nickless is a past member of Missouri Outdoor Communicators (both as an outdoor journalist and a web master.) She has won awards for her poetry, and artwork, and wrote a column on harvesting and cooking wild edibles for several years. Mr. & Mrs. Nickless live near De Soto, Missouri, with their two daughters – Ekaterina, age 16, and Samantha, age 12, who are both budding writers and artists.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1480138746
• ISBN 13: 9781480138742
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 106