Secret Maps of the Ancient World is a spell-binding book which presents a compelling case for ancient Chinese voyagers coming to the Americas. Reading the book, I felt like I had fallen into the archives for the movie, National Treasure -- only this time, it's real!!
Diana Waring, author of world history curriculum and international speaker
“The Harris collection of maps will in the long run, cause an even more fundamental and agonizing reappraisal of American history than my book has.”
Gavin Menzies, NY Times bestselling author of 1421
and now 1434
“This scholarly and yet easy to read book is a major contribution to the early history of the Americas and the relations to China and other parts of Asia. There is much evidence that Chinese were in America before Columbus. Based on the rare Asian maps collection of her late father, Dr. Hendon M. Harris, the author has painstakingly researched, including using the resources of the Library of Congress, to present her findings that Chinese had indeed traveled by sea to the Americas since 2000 B.C.”
Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, Retired Chief of Asian Div.,
Library of Congress
Dean Emeritus, Ohio University Libraries
“Charlotte Harris Rees, true to her distinguished pioneer father Hendon, resumes affronting usually-bypassed primary evidence free of the 19th-century dogmas with refreshing skeptical common sense.”
Dr. Cyclone Covey, professor emeritus History,
Charlotte Harris Rees has appeared on television, National Public Radio, in numerous news articles and has given speeches - including at the Library of Congress - on her family's map collection and the early arrival of Chinese to America.
Mrs. Rees is the daughter of Baptist missionary Dr. Hendon Harris, Jr. who found old Asian maps then in 1973 wrote The Asiatic Fathers of America: Chinese Discovery and Colonization of Ancient America. For years Mrs. Rees was a skeptic of her father's theories and for over 20 years after her father's death the maps were just in a box under her brother's bed.
In 2003 the maps were taken to the Library of Congress where they stayed for 3 years while they were studied. In 2005 Mrs. Rees gave a speech concerning the maps at the Library of Congress. In 2006 she published an edited and abridged version of her late father's book.
Secret Maps of the Ancient World springboards from The Asiatic Fathers of America yet stands alone in presenting much new evidence from many different fields that was not available in 1973.
Charlotte Harris Rees lives in Virginia with her husband of 41 years. Her web address is www.HarrisMaps.com