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1421: The Year China Discovered America
Contributor(s): Menzies, Gavin (Author)

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ISBN: 0061564893     ISBN-13: 9780061564895
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2008
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Annotation: On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in the long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. And they colonized America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | Americas (north Central South West Indies)
- History | Asia - China
Dewey: 910.951
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.06" W x 9" L (1.88 lbs) 672 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
- Chronological Period - 15th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas. When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in the long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. And they colonized America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world.


Contributor Bio(s): Menzies, Gavin: -

Gavin Menzies is the bestselling author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America; 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance; and The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed. He served in the Royal Navy between 1953 and 1970. His knowledge of seafaring and navigation sparked his interest in the epic voyages of Chinese admiral Zheng He. Menzies lives in London.


 
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