' makes history sound like pure fun.a seductive read. 'What you've done, brilliantly, is to raise many questions that people are debating.' - Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show 'No matter what you think of Menzies's theories, his enthusiasm is infectious.' - Christian Science Monitor

' is likely to be the most fascinating read of 2003.' - UPI that adds to our knowledge of the world, past and present.' - Daily News He has raised important questions and marshaled some fascinating information.' - Toronto Globe and Mail 'Menzies' enthusiasm is infectious and his energy boundless. And they colonized America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world. Lost in the 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. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to 'proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas.' When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. 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.About the Book Originally published: London: Transworld Publishers, 2002. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history. 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.

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. On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Buy 1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies for 29.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. In the early 1990s, former British Naval Officer and Commander of HMS Rorqual Gavin Menzies came across a map in the James Ford Bell Library at the. 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. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China.

1421 by Gavin Menzies