1421 The Year China Discovered America

Paperback

1st

Non-Fiction

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While pursuing his passion for medieval history, Menzies came across an intriguing item--a chart dated from 1424 that appeared to portray islands of the western Atlantic. After prolonged and intense research, he concluded that someone had reached the Caribbean and established a colony there 7 decades before Christopher Columbus sailed. Menzies believes it was the Chinese who departed on this epic voyage in 1421 under the command of Emperor Zhu Dis admirals. In this stirring book, the author claims that maps of the world existed before Europeans set sail and that only the Chinese had the ships and expertise to have provided them. Moreover, he presents evidence that Europeans found Chinese people, ships, artifacts, plants, and animals when they arrived in the Americas. He documents Chinese voyages to Antarctica and Australia, which support the 15th-century Asian sailors navigational expertise. Whether or not readers will believe that this evidence is enough to rewrite history, Menzies takes a fascinating look at a world of 500-foot long wooden ships, survival at sea, emperors, cannibals, and a time when parts of the world were waiting to be discovered.

Perennial

9780060540944

2004-12-01

2004

1

~$4.88

2026-01-01

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