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1421

Gavin Menzies

2002544 pagesabout 8–12 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Transworld/Bantam Press · 544 pages · ENGISBN 9780593050781
  • 2003BantamISBN 9780552212359
  • 2003HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited · ENGISBN 9780965731287
  • 2003Bantam Dell Pub Group · 649 pages · ENGISBN 9780553815221
  • 2004Perennial · 649 pages · ENGISBN 9780060540944
  • 2003William Morrow · 576 pages · ENGISBN 9780060537630
  • 2008Harper Perennial · 672 pages · ENGISBN 9780061564895
  • 2002Bantam Press · 544 pagesISBN 9780593051580

This volume presents the author's assertion that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, and that this same Chinese fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan. The author presents a series of vignettes describing his travels around the globe, examining what he claims is evidence for his "1421 hypothesis", interspersed with speculation and description of the achievements of Admiral Zheng's fleet. "A remarkable journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history"--Jacket.

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