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- catalog abstract ""On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, 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 whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the globe." "When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Fourteen twenty-one.".
- catalog contributor b12746557.
- catalog coverage "China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, 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 whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the globe." "When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-504) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 520 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0593050789".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Bantam,".
- catalog spatial "China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.".
- catalog subject "910.951 21".
- catalog subject "Discoveries in geography Chinese.".
- catalog subject "G322 .M457 2002".
- catalog subject "Voyages around the world.".
- catalog subject "Zheng, He, 1371-1435 Travel.".
- catalog title "1421 : the year China discovered the world / Gavin Menzies.".
- catalog title "Fourteen twenty-one.".
- catalog type "text".