[PDF.08ml] 1421: The Year China Discovered America

1421: The Year China Discovered America

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 | #19723 in Books |  Harper Perennial |  2008-06-03 |  2008-06-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.34 x6.00l,1.88 | File type: PDF | 672 pages

 | Harper Perennial

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is a romp|By M. Heiss|The writing of this book is fun, detailing a global scavenger hunt for evidence of a massive Chinese fleet. In the process, Gavin Menzies makes claims about Chinese landfalls and mining villages, cartography and navigational discoveries. It's fun to read.

The book doesn't go quite far enough. Thor Heyerdahl has noted that people living on|From Publishers Weekly|A former submarine commander in Britain's Royal Navy, Menzies must enjoy doing battle. The amateur historian's lightly footnoted, heavily speculative re-creation of little-known voyages made by Chinese ships in the early 1400s goes far bey

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 knowl...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.1421: The Year China Discovered America   |  Gavin Menzies. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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