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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Menzies, Gavin
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 006054094X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060540944
- Seller
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About This Item
US: Perennial, 2004. Paperback. Good. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from C hina. Its mission was to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to c ollect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole wor ld in Confucian harmony. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moo rings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's lon g, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ship s had reached America 70 years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese coloniz ed America before the Europeans and transplanted in America and other count ries the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 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 landmark work of historical investigation.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000049749
- Title
- 1421: The Year China Discovered America
- Author
- Menzies, Gavin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 006054094X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060540944
- Publisher
- Perennial
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2004
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Asia;
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