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S03/0210 --- S10/0820 --- S09/0200 --- S04/0670 --- 951.06 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Chinese geography, description and travels: before 1840 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Water transportation: general and before 1949 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works and before 1840 --- China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644 --- Geschiedenis van China: Ming-dynastie (1386-1644) --- 951.06 Geschiedenis van China: Ming-dynastie (1386-1644) --- Physical geography --- ontdekkingsreizen --- History --- China --- 924 --- China geschiedenis --- Amerika ontdekking --- geschiedenis Azië --- histoire Asie
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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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History of Asia --- anno 1400-1499 --- China
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