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1421 : the year that China discovered the world
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ISBN: 0553815229 9780553815221 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Bantam Press

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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 orders were 'to proceed amm the way to the end of the earth'. The voyage would last for two years and by the time the fleet returned, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot, and the records of their journey 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 this remarkable journey, of his discoveries and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy, surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and later European navigators as wellas the traces the fleet left behind. Revised and updated with new material - includinf evidence of an entire Chinese fleet wrecked on New Zealand's South Island - for this paperback edition, 1421is a brilliant, epoch-making work of historical detection that radically alters our understanding of world exploration of world exploration and rewrites history itself. (bron: covertekst)

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ISBN: 0593050789 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Bantam

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1434 : the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance.
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ISBN: 9780061632648 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Morrow

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1421 : het jaar waarin China de Nieuwe Wereld ontdekte.
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ISBN: 9026319061 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam Ambo

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