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1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies (Paperback, 2004)

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On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.

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The explosive and bestselling true story of the extraordinary sea voyage that rewrote history... 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 mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony.Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, 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 were 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 the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them- ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea.Already hailed as a classic, this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.

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Transworld Publishers Ltd
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9780553815221
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Author
Gavin Menzies
Publication Name
1421: the Year China Discovered the World
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
656 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
553g

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Gavin Menzies
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United Kingdom

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by metka00818 Nov, 2021
A FRESH INSIGHT TO AUSTRALI
An excursion back in time with very interesting views which could raise discussion on the first discovery of Australia.This book is bound to find those for and against the outcomes, nevertheless it is well written and provokes thought.
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by jazyjewells09 Dec, 2012
HOW ONE LIGHTNING STRIKE CHANGED THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
1421 is the book that proves beyond doubt that the whole world education system towards country discovery must be rewritten.1421 has been extensively reserched & written in a simple factual way that even the non seafarers and star gazers amongst us can understand.So compelling is the book that ive read it twice just to make sure that it all has sunk in.A truely amazing book that should be a manditory high school read, as every thing that weve been tought on who discovered what has been wrong!

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