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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)

S04/0670 --- China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644

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S04/0691 --- S04/0690 --- S04/0670 --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- China: History--The conquest of 1644 --- China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840 --- China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644

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S01/0600 --- S04/0670 --- China: Bibliography and reference--Books, printing, editing and paper --- China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644 --- Block books, Chinese --- Printing --- History --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Chinese block books

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S06/0204 --- S04/0670 --- S11/0491 --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Ming --- China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644 --- China: Social sciences--Society before 1840 --- China --- Politics and government --- Social conditions

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"Examination of the social and demographic effects of the Ming-Qing transition on southwest China and the devastation wrought by the warlord Zhang Xianzhong"--Provided by publisher.

Revolutionaries --- Zhang, Xianzhong, --- China --- History --- S04/0670 --- S04/0690 --- S04/0691 --- China: History--Ming: 1368 - 1644 --- China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840 --- China: History--The conquest of 1644 --- Chang, Hsien-chung, --- 张献忠, --- 張獻忠,