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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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- ISBN
- 9780060537630
- Book Title
- 1421 : the Year China Discovered America
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Travel, History, Philosophy
- Topic
- History & Surveys / General, Military / Naval, Essays & Travelogues, Asia / China, World, Expeditions & Discoveries
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 30.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was "to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last more than two years and circle the globe. When they returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships, now considered frivolous, were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed were how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted to America, Australia, New Zealand and South America the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world. Now, in a landmark historical journey, Gavin Menzies, who spent fifteen years tracing the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet, shares the remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence to support them. His compelling narrative pulls together ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators to prove that the Chinese had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years ahead of the Europeans. 1421 describes the artifacts and inscribed stones left behind by the emperor's fleet, the evidence of wrecked junks along its route -- discovered in locations ranging from the middle of the Mississippi River to tributaries of the Amazon -- and the ornate votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, in honor of Shao Lin, goddess of the sea. 1421: The Year China Discovered America is the story of a remarkable journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this classic work of historical detection.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060537639
ISBN-13
9780060537630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2404187
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Book Title
1421 : the Year China Discovered America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Surveys / General, Military / Naval, Essays & Travelogues, Asia / China, World, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Travel, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
30.3 Oz
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Menzies' enthusiasm is infectious and his energy boundless. He has raised important questions and marshaled some fascinating information., Captivating . . . a historical detective story . . . that adds to our knowledge of the world, past and present., "Menzies' enthusiasm is infectious and his energy boundless. He has raised important questions and marshaled some fascinating information." -- Toronto Globe and Mail "Captivating . . . a historical detective story . . . that adds to our knowledge of the world, past and present." -- Daily News " is likely to be the most fascinating read of 2003." -- UPI "No matter what you think of Menzies's theories, his enthusiasm is infectious." -- Christian Science Monitor "What you've done, brilliantly, is to raise many questions that people are debating." -- Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show "[Menzies] makes history sound like pure fun...a seductive read." -- New York Times Magazine
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910/.951/09024
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Trade
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22
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