1421 by Gavin Menzies
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.
Gavin Menzies (1937-2020) was the bestselling author of 1421: The Year China Found America, 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, and The Lost Kingdom of Atlantis: History's Biggest Mystery Solved, among other books. Between 1953 until 1970, he served in the Royal Navy. His understanding of seafaring and navigation piqued his curiosity in Chinese admiral Zheng He's epic adventures.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061564895 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061564893 |
| Title | 1421 |
| Author | Gavin Menzies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2008-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
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