Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet In Search of a Legendary Armada
by Delgado, James P
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1553652738
- ISBN 13
- 9781553652731
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About This Item
Vancouver BC: Douglas & McIntyre. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1553652738 . A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 240 pages; "In 1279, off Chinas southeast coast, Khubilai Khan routed the Song navy and completed the grand dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khanthe conquest of China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen, stretching from the China Sea to the plains of Hungary. Having also inadvertently inherited the worlds largest navymore than seven hundred shipsthe Mongols began audacious attacks on Japan, Vietnam and Java. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai had squandered his massive fleet, and the Mongols were a spent maritime force. Considered for centuries to be little more than legend, the story of the Mongols fleet has finally been confirmed. Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has dived with the Japanese team studying the remains of the Khans lost fleet at Takashima. Using original sources as diverse as actual sunken ships, land excavations, temple inscriptions, hand-painted scrolls and historical and literary records from China, Japan and Vietnam, Delgado takes the reader on an exciting history of Khubilai Khans great Mongol navy, whose rise and fall presaged the great fleets of the fifteenth-century Ming Dynasty, made famous in the best-seller 1421." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19198
- Title
- Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet In Search of a Legendary Armada
- Author
- Delgado, James P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1553652738
- ISBN 13
- 9781553652731
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver BC
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 1553652738, kublai khan, Navy, mongolia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia; MARITIME;
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