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1421 : The Year China Discovered The World

by Gavin Menzies
$12.71
1421 : The Year China Discovered The World - Thryft
1421 : The Year China Discovered The World - Thryft

China's secret, ancient world exploration unveiled in 1421.

1421 is a fascinating book that challenges traditional notions of world exploration. Menzies presents compelling evidence that China discovered the world long before Columbus and Magellan. The book is great for anyone interested in history, exploration, and Chinese culture. Readers will be impressed by the extensive research, detailed accounts, and the fascinating revelations about China's role in global history.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

1421 : The Year China Discovered The World

by Gavin Menzies
$12.71
ISBN: 9780553815221
Authors: Gavin Menzies
Publisher: Bantam
Date of Publication: 2003-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, History, Travel
Related Topics: World History, American History, Historical, Asia, Adventure, History
Goodreads rating: 3.61
(rated by 14532 readers)

Description

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their orders were 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth'.The voyage would last for two years and by the time the fleet returned, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot, and the records of their journey destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook.The result of fifteen years research, 1421 is Gavin Menzies' enthralling account of this remarkable journey, of his discoveries and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy, surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind.Revised and updated with new material - including evidence of an entire Chinese fleet wrecked on New Zealand's South Island - for this paperback edition, 1421 is a brilliant, epoch-making work of historical detection that radically alters our understanding of world exploration and rewrites history itself.
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China's secret, ancient world exploration unveiled in 1421.

1421 is a fascinating book that challenges traditional notions of world exploration. Menzies presents compelling evidence that China discovered the world long before Columbus and Magellan. The book is great for anyone interested in history, exploration, and Chinese culture. Readers will be impressed by the extensive research, detailed accounts, and the fascinating revelations about China's role in global history.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.