{"product_id":"9781609257606","title":"Templars in America: From the Crusades to the New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo historians reveal the hidden history of the Knights Templar in pre-Columbian America and their influence on the Founding Fathers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTemplars in America\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the story of two leading European Templar families who combined forces to create a new commonwealth in America nearly a century before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Henry St. Clair of the Orkney Islands, then part of Normandy, and Carlo Zeno, a Venetian trader, made peaceful and mutually beneficial contact with the Mi’kmaq people of what is now Canada.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Historians Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins draw on archival and archaeological evidence to prove the Templar voyage. They then demonstrate how this early contact with the Americas ties into the centuries-long development of the Templars and Freemasonry, which in turn shaped the thinking of the founding fathers—and the American Constitution.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Wallace-Murphy and Hopkins also reveal the continuous history of American exploration from the time of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, through the age of the Vikings. \u003ci\u003eTemplars in America \u003c\/i\u003eis a wild ride from the golden age of exploration to the founding of the United States.","brand":"Red Wheel\/Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181561856240,"sku":"9781609257606","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609257606_p0.jpg?v=1763837092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609257606","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}