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Author Menzies, Gavin.

Title 1421 : the year China discovered America / Gavin Menzies.

Imprint New York : Perennial, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  910.95109 M529f 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st Perennial ed.
Description 649 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published in Great Britain by: Transworld Publishers. 2002.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject Discoveries in geography -- Chinese.
Voyages around the world.
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- China.
Discoveries in geography -- Chinese. (OCoLC)fst01352756
Voyages around the world. (OCoLC)fst01169326
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Chronological Term 1368-1644
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title One thousand four hundred twenty-one
Fourteen twenty-one
Year China discovered America
ISBN 006054094X
9780060540944
0061564893
9780061564895

 
    
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