1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Menzies, Gavin

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1421: The Year China Discovered the World

During the reign of Emperor Zhu Di, a fleet of huge junks left China on a mission to sail to the end of the earth to collect tributes from the barbarians beyond the seas. When they returned more than two years later, Zhu Di had lost power and the fleet was left to rot, the records of the journey destroyed. In this historical detective story, Menzies argues that Chinese ships reached America 70 years before Columbus, circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, discovered Antarctica, reached Australia 350 years before Cook, and solved the problem of longitude 300 years before the Europeans.