1421 The Year China Discovered The World
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1421
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-31
1421 written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with History categories.
On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research, 1421 is Gavin Menzies' enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic, this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.
1421
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2004
1421 written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams.
1421
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Press
Release Date : 2002
1421 written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by Bantam Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the globe. In the course of their journey, the Chinese ships reached America seventy years before Columbus; circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan; discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans. Contents include: - 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: Settlement in North America; Expedition to the North Pole - The voyage of Yang Qing - Chinese circumnavigation of the world 1421-3.
1421
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
1421 written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with China categories.
In 1421 a unique fleet of junks set sail from China. Its mission was to explore the earth collecting tributes from the barbarians and uniting the world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in 1423 the emperor had fallen, leaving China in chaos. The great ships were left to rot and their journeys' records were destroyed. The author pieces together his findings to reveal this lost adventure of exploration and circumnavigation of the globe.
1434 The Year A Chinese Fleet Sailed To Italy And Ignited The Renaissance
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-02-02
1434 The Year A Chinese Fleet Sailed To Italy And Ignited The Renaissance written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-02 with History categories.
In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.
1434
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2008-06-03
1434 written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-03 with Art categories.
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "1421" offers a stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence about the European Renaissance, tracing its roots to the Chinese. 16-page color photo insert.
1421 The Year China Discovered The World
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
1421 The Year China Discovered The World written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Who Discovered America
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Who Discovered America written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with History categories.
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago. Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing implications for the history of mankind.
The Lost Empire Of Atlantis
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-15
The Lost Empire Of Atlantis written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with History categories.
The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. After a chance conversation in Egypt in 2008, bestselling historian Gavin Menzies launched himself on a quest that would reveal the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis and her destruction. Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a trading empire that spanned from the Great Lakes in North America to Kerala in India. And in doing so finally explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilisation described by Plato and its disappearance. Reading like a real-life Indiana Jones story as ex-Royal Navy submarine captain Menzies travels round the world in pursuit of his goal, this is epic, iconoclastic popular history.
When China Ruled The Seas
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Author : Louise Levathes
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-12-02
When China Ruled The Seas written by Louise Levathes and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with History categories.
One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought China’s treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the East African coast, to China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook’s landing. It was a time of exploration and expansion, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on the country’s rise as a naval power that briefly brought half the world under its nominal authority. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of China by other contemporary cultures. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming dynasty—the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasion.