The Land Bridge of Bering Strait
Lost Horizon - James Hilton, Perennial, 1960.
After the plane carrying four people crashed, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man who lead them to a monastery hidden in "The Valley of the Blue Moon." In Shangri-La, destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled.
Lost World - Tom Koppel, Atria Books, 2003
Rewriting prehistory- how new science is tracing America's Ice Age mariners. The bias is toward the marine exigesis along the coastline as opposed to migration across the land bridge.
Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade, Penguin Press, 2006.
Recovering the lost history of our ancestors. Considers the controversy about human evolution and human nature. Supports the beginning of evolution in the Rift Valley of Africa.
The Journey of Man - Spencer Wells, Random House, 2002.
Genetic work that contributes to our understanding of human prehistory and evolution, with an account of the spread and mixing of the human species from its origin in Africa.
The Great Journey - Brian M. Fagan, University Press of Florida, 2003.
Tells the story of one of archeology's great controversies: how, where, when and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America. It suggests a step-by-step progress from Africa to the Middle East to India, south Asia, Japan, and Siberia, as well as around the Mediterrean to Europe and the shores of the Atlantic cultures.
Sightings - Peterson & Hogan, National Geographic, 2002.
The authors interweave legend and lore, science and symbolism, wonder and controversy, inspired by the gray whales which migrate 10,000 miles each year, from Baja California to the Bering Strait.
Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People - ed. Fitzhugh & Dubreil, University of Washington Press, 2001.
The most in-depth treatise available on Ainu prehistory, material culture, and ethnohistory. The Ainu represent the western North American cultures' legacy, suggesting a drift genetically from the East to the West. They are quite similar in genotype and physiological type.
The Intertidal Wilderness:, University of California Press, 2002
A stunning photographic exploration of the tidepools of the Pacific coast, from Baja California to as far north as southeast Alaska. Many subtle and small species are highlighted as oceanic inhabitants.
