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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by: Gavin Menzies List Price: £8.91 City Travel Guides Price: £7.25 You Save: £1.66 (19%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9780061564895 ISBN: 0061564893 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 672 Publication Date: 2008-06 Publisher: Harper Perennial Studio: Harper Perennial Sales Rank: 64826 Related Items:
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 Rating: - EnjoyableThis is a very well written book. The author obviously has a great enthusiasm for his subject, and this comes across in the book and makes it a very enjoyable read. However, I think it should be noted that there is little if any physical evidence to back some of his claims. Also, the way that he has interpreted some of the evidence is a bit one-sided. Overall this is a good read but maybe not quite as scholarly as it at first appears. Rating:  - wonderful fancya wonderful read - but as yet no proof of anything beyond east africa. archeologically verifiable proof found IN-SITU is whats needed. but as i said earlier - a wonderful read Rating: - Interesting speculationsI am of two minds about this book by Gavin Menzies. I find it absolutely fascinating to read some of the speculations and interpretations that he puts on different maps and findings. I find it credible to believe that Chinese fleets of the early 1400s would be trading in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, making regular journeys to places as far as Africa, and perhaps reaching the Pacific Coasts of North and South America a few times. However, I don't know what to think of such issues as Puerto Rico not only having been discovered by Chinese Fleets, but that based on this information, the Portuguese would have colonised areas in the Caribbean a generation prior to Columbus' journey - there seems no credible reason why Prince Henry ... Read More: Rating:  - Sheds new light on China's role in world politicsThis is an excellent, well-researched and well-written book providing startling insights on China's role in charting the coastline of Australia, NZ, the Americas, Antarctica and other countries well before explorers such as Columbus and Vasco de Gama ever reached them. By applying navigational skills honed with the British Navy - particularly an understanding of prevailing oceanic winds & currents - the author systematically retraces the routes taken by China's treasure ships and shows that China circumnavigated the world long before European countries such as Britain, Portugal and Spain laid claim to it. This book has turned the academic world upside down in its simplicity and common sense approach to putting two and two together. By citing ... Read More: |
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