1421 : the year China discovered America / Gavin Menzies
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TextPublisher: New York : William Morrow, [2003]Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: xix, 552 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type: - text, still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0060537639
- Fourteen twenty-one
- 910.41
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San Isidro Galas Branch Reference Section | Circulation | C 910.41 M551o 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 127263d |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-536) and index.
I. Imperial China
The emperor's grand plan
A thunderbolt strikes
The fleets set sail
II. The guiding stars
Rounding the cape
The new world
III. The voyage of Hong Bao
Voyage to antarctica and australia
IV. The voyage of Zhou Man
Australia
The barrier reef and the spice islands
The first colony in the americas
Colonies in Central America
V. The voyage of Zhou Wen
Satan's island
The treasure fleet runs aground
Settlement in North America
Expedition to the North Pole
VI. The voyage of Yang Qing
Solving the riddle
VII. Portugal inherits the crown
Where the earth ends
Colonizing the new world
On the shoulders of giants
Epilogue : the Chinese legacy
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