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1421

By Gavin Menzies

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1421

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
672
Release Date:
2008-06-01
Publication Date:
2008-06-03
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0061564893
ISBN13:
9780061564895
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
853 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
36 cm

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