1421
The Year China Discovered The World
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 orders were 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth'. The voyage would last for two years and by the time the fleet returned, 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 destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years be…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4481-5483-8
- EAN: 9781448154838
- Produktnummer: 14346874
- Verlag: Transworld
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 656 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'377 KB
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Gavin Menzies
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