false 4813 24 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, <i>1421</i> 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.</p> 1788700 2002 1421: The Year China Discovered America total:1027|5:216|4:382|3:275|2:98|1:56| 1027 3685 1756 307 1 7 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 07 01:10:42 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 23:12:38 -0700 2008 Menzies takes a tremendous dump on the sensibilities of his readers, bombarding us with outrageous claims backed up with erroneous f...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 08:40:33 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 08:51:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Aug 29 15:30:07 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 15:44:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 12:29:16 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 10:41:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Mar 20 09:59:34 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 12:53:48 -0700 2008
The book's content amazed me. It's a kind of re-writing world history that attempted to tell us that Magellan, Colombus and...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 18 21:15:20 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 14:13:37 -0700 2008 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies presents evidence that China not only discovered North and South America before Columbus was born, but also rounded the Cape of Good Hope, explored the North and South Poles, discovered Australia, and circumnavigated the world, visiting every...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Aug 15 19:49:35 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 18:30:31 -0700 2007
However that doesn't mean that they could NOT have. They certainly had the navy, the navigational skills (no worse than th...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 20 23:09:05 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 29 07:43:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 08:42:56 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 06:55:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 28 19:54:20 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 06 19:39:37 -0700 2009 Basically, the book is about how towards the end of China's expansive age, they sent out a gianormous fleet of huge ships to coll...more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 06:11:40 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 06:12:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 15 23:01:09 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 23:13:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 13:57:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 16:47:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 09 17:22:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 17:24:14 -0700 2009 http://www.1421.tv/ ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 19:26:58 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 19:54:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 10:16:05 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:16:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Dec 20 03:46:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 03:47:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 20 01:56:29 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 01:57:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jan 05 15:34:36 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 15:47:52 -0800 2009
I read this book a few years ago. I was reminded of it when another book I was reading repeated the notion of the huge Chinese fleets sailing all over the world in the fifteenth century. I fin...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 20:08:48 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 07:57:43 -0700 2009 1
That being said, I thought this book was only okay. I had several issues with it tha...more...]]>