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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)
by Gavin Menzies
Product Group: Book
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (2008-06-03)
ISBN: 0061564893
Brand: PBS
EAN: 9780061564895
Binding/Media: Paperback - 672 pages
Release Date: 2008-06-03
SKU: 51858
Condition: Collectable Very Good
Comments: LARGER SOFTBACK BOOK! A RARE TO FIND IN EARLY PRINT HARPER PERENNIAL, 2004. "...DISCOVERED AMERICA". TRADE SOFTBACK BOOK AND PAGES ARE IN GREAT CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. SHIPS RAPIDLY BY EXPEDITED. PRIORITY AIR MAIL OVERSIZED BOOK..
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Product Description
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.
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