"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 History curriculum and international speaker

"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 hundreds if not thousands of years 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 BC."

Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, Former Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress (Retired); Dean Emeritus, Ohio University Libraries

"Secret Maps of the Ancient World is the definitive reference book on Chinese voyages to America over the past 4000 years. It is a tremendous intellectual achievement. I hope that 10 years from now it will be in every American school. The 1421 team gives our warmest congratulations."

Gavin Menzies, author of New York Times Bestseller 1421 and 1434

“Charlotte Harris Rees, true to her distinguished pioneer father Hendon, resumes affronting usually-bypassed primary evidence free of 19^th century dogmas with refreshing skeptical common sense.”

Cyclone Covey, PhD Stanford 1949, Professor Emeritus of History at Wake Forest, author of numerous books including A Critical Reprise of ‘Aboriginal’ American History, 1999- 2005

"The matching of today's known geography with locations identified on these Chinese maps was begun by the late Hendon Harris..." 

Donald Cyr in "Ancient Chinese Maps of the World," Across Before Columbus: Evidence for Transoceanic Contact with the Americas Prior to 1492, NEARA, 1998

 

 “In my assessment, The Asiatic Fathers of America is a groundbreaking and important book that was well ahead of its time when it was first privately printed and circulated over thirty years ago. Now the author’s daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Rees, is seeking to have her father’s book properly published and widely circulated for the first time.” 

Robert Schoch, Yale 1983, PhD, Professor of Natural Science, College of General Studies, Boston University author of Voyages of the Pyramid Builders,  Penguin Putnam, New York 2003

“Hendon Mason Harris, a Baptist missionary in China, noted strong links between the mappemonde and the Shan Hai Ching.”... “Some of the information displayed on the Chinese mappemonde and in certain books of the Shan Hai Ching does seem to deal with places, features, and fauna specific to the American continent. The information it contains could only have been acquired through an exploration of the eastern side of the Pacific.” 

Patrick Huyghe, University of Virginia and Syracuse, in Columbus Was Last, MJF Books, New York, 1992 (Huyghe has written numerous articles for publications such as Omni, New York, the New York Times Magazine and Discover.)

“Harris deserves gratitude for this major historical advance. The Harris Map seems to be a copy of the original that came with the Shan Hai Jing.”

Cyclone Covey, PhD Stanford 1949, Professor Emeritus of History at Wake Forest, author of numerous books including A Critical Reprise of ‘Aboriginal’ American History, 1999- 2005