Chasing Dragons: The True History of the Piasa

by Mark Nickless and Laurie Bonner-Nickless

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480138746
• ISBN13: 9781480138742
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A couple chasing dragons

The husband wife team wrote this book as if Chinese expert and attended the Zheng He Conference in Malicca in 2010. This flimsy self published book does not worth the book price. They do not have knowledge on Chinese culture, history and pictograph of Native American. They claimed to have visited Washington State Park for petroglyph. It is not even an amateur book worth buying and reading. Get other books if you want to know Chinese dragon and culture.