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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)

by Gavin Menzies

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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.

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About the Author

Gavin Menzies was born in 1937 and lived in China for two years before the Second World War. He joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and served in submarines from 1959 to 1970. As a junior officer he sailed the world in the wakes of Columbus, Dias, Cabral and Vasco da Gama. While in command of HMS Rorqual (1968–1970), he sailed the routes pioneered by Magellan and Captain Cook. Since leaving the Royal Navy, he has returned to China and the Far East many times, and in the course of researching 1421 he has visited 120 countries, more than 900 museums and libraries, and every major sea port of the late Middle Ages. Menzies is married, has two daughters and lives in North London.

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ISBN:

9780061564895

Subtitle:

The Year China Discovered America

Author:

Menzies, Gavin

Author:

by Gavin Menzies

Publisher:

William Morrow Paperbacks

Subject:

World - General

Subject:

Military - Naval

Subject:

Asia - China

Subject:

World

Subject:

Expeditions & Discoveries

Subject:

Americas (North Central South West Indies)

Subject:

World History-General

Copyright:

2003

Edition Description:

Trade PB

Series:

P.S.

Publication Date:

20080603

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

672

Dimensions:

9 x 6 x 1.344 in 30 oz

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