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1421 : The Year China Discovered The World Paperback English by Gavin Menzies - 3/1/2004

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الناشرTransworld Publishers Ltd
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 139780553815221
اللغةالإنجليزية
العنوان الفرعي للكتابThe Year China Discovered The World
وصف الكتابOn 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
المراجعة التحريريةMenzies has come up with something entirely new... it is a startling claim * Guardian * "Exhaustively researched... an intriguing and highly persuasive thesis, told with passion and energy" * Evening Standard * "Popular history at its best" * The Times * "A book as engrossing as any adventure story" * Daily Mail *
عن المؤلفGavin Menzies (Royal Navy Submarine Commanding Officer, retired) was born in 1937 in China, where he spent the first two years of his life. He joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and served in submarines from 1959 to 1970. As a junior officer he sailed the world in the wake of Columbus, Dias, Cabral and Vasco da Gama. When in command of HMS Rorqual (1968-1970), he sailed the routes pioneered by Magellan and Captain Cook. Since leaving the Royal Navy, he has returned to China and the Far East many times, and in the course of researching 1421 he has visited 120 countries, over 900 museums and libraries and every major sea port of the late Middle Ages.Gavin Menzies is married with two daughters and lives in North London.
تاريخ النشر3/1/2004
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