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1421 : the year China discovered America

Title: 1421 : the year China discovered America / Gavin Menzies.
Author: Menzies, Gavin.
Publication: New York : Perennial, 2004.
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Description

649 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

Argues that the Chinese discovered America and established colonies there before Columbus and that European explorers such as Magellan and Cook "discovered" new lands using pre-existing Chinese maps.

Alternative Title

One thousand four hundred twenty-one
Fourteen twenty-one
Year China discovered America

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Note

Originally published in Great Britain by: Transworld Publishers. 2002.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Imperial China -- The Emperor's Grand Plan -- A Thunderbolt Strikes -- The Fleets Set Sail -- The Guiding Stars -- Rounding the Cape -- The New World -- The Voyage of Hong Bao -- Voyage to Antarctica and Australia -- The Voyage of Zhou Man -- Australia -- The Barrier Reef and the Spice Islands -- The First Colony in the Americas -- Colonies in Central America -- The Voyage of Zhou Wen -- Satan's Island -- The Treasure Fleet Runs Aground -- Settlement in North America -- Expedition to the North Pole -- The Voyage of Yang Qing -- Solving the Riddle -- Portugal Inherits the Crown -- Where the Earth End -- Colonizing the New World -- On the Shoulders of Giants -- Epilogue: The Chinese Legacy -- Chinese Circumnavigation of the World 1421-3: Synopsis of Evidence -- The Determination of Longitude.

ISBN

006054094X
9780060540944

LCCN

2004295381

OCLC

ocm54085582
54085582
SCSB-5645592

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Columbia University Libraries