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portada 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2003
Language
English
Pages
656
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20x13 cm
ISBN
0553815229
ISBN13
9780553815221
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1421: The Year China Discovered the World

Gavin Menzies (Author) · Corgi Books · Paperback

1421: The Year China Discovered the World - Gavin Menzies

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Synopsis "1421: The Year China Discovered the World"

The explosive and bestselling true story of the extraordinary sea voyage that rewrote history...

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 mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony.

Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were 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 the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea.

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Karin Staab Tuesday, September 08, 2026
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Gran libro que muestra la investigación que siguió Menzies durante décadas y que nos muestra una parte de la historia desconocida por todo el mundo y que los últimos años recién ha salido a la luz. La increíble coincidencia en el tiempo de una civilización que decidió aislarse del mundo y otra que partió a descubrirlo gracias al espacio que dejó la primera. La razón por la que nuestra civilización es cristiana occidental y no hablamos chino.

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