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1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
Gavin Menzies
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Description for 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
Paperback. In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FPC; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTM; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328.
In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research ... Read more
In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007269556
SKU
V9780007269556
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Ref
99-97
About Gavin Menzies
The author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies was born in 1937 and lived in China for two years before the Second World War. He joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and served in submarines from 1959 to 1970. Since leaving the Royal Navy, he has returned to China and the Far East many times and in ... Read more
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`Menzies has come up with something entirely new...it is a startling claim.' Guardian