Publisher Description
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was “to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas” and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.
When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China’s long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted in America and other countries the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world.
Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation.
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“Unbelievably well researched account of the voyages of the Chinese treasure ship fleets in the early Ming dynasty. He proves beyond much doubt that the fleets methodically explored, mapped and landed colonies around the Americas 70 years before Columbus and that Columbus had maps showing, at least, some of the Caribbean islands before he set sail. Later Chinese rulers purposely destroyed almost all the evidence of these voyages 100 years later, which accounts for the erroneous credit given to early European explorers.”
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Craig (5 out of 5 stars)
