After 1400 years the words first settlers of another planet arrive in Alpha Centauri. The planet is similar to Earth in many ways and they name it Earth II. They learn to grow food from the seeds they brought, explore and name four continents and four Oceans. After ten years another ship from Earth that they did not know about joins them. They discover intelligent life in the form of primitive cave people on one continent and pygmies on another which shakes the foundations of Christianity and causes riots on Earth. They also meet and befriend aliens that land on a more advanced ship. About the Author John Lincoln was a keen scuba diver and spear fisherman. He obtained a degree in Ocean Engineering in 1974 and worked for other companies in Nova Scotia, Louisiana, Texas, and Australia as a designer and manager of offshore oil and gas and steam power plant facilities. He started his own businesses in 1994-Lincoln Consulting and OES (Ocean Engineering Systems.) OES through innovation became the world's largest and most prolific subsea pipeline trenching company http: //www.oes.net.au/. Lincoln is semiretired while his son runs the company from Australia. Lincoln enjoys writing books and goes diving occasionally and lives a secluded good life with his wife in Key Largo.