Gavin Menzies

1421

The Year China Discovered America

Buch

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 Europea… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-156489-5
EAN: 9780061564895
Produktnummer: 3302182
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 672 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D4.3 cm 770 g
Gewicht: 770

Über den Autor

Gavin Menzies (1937-2020) was 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.