The knowledge in this book would have waited longer to appear and would have taken another form without the urging and assistance of particular people. By 1974 I had worked on the relation of the Book of Mormon to Mesoamerican geography and cultural data for twenty-five years but had been reluctant to impose my views on the public or my colleagues.

Summary: John Sorenson proposes a Mesoamerican setting for the Book of Mormon through compiling ancient evidences that he believes support this setting.