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Zusatztext On 8 March 1421! the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail fromChina. The ships! some nearly five hundred feet long! were under the commandof Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was "to proceedall the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbariansbeyond the seas" and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journeywould last for over two years and take them around the globe. But by thetime the fleet returned home! Zhu Di had lost control and China was beginningits long! self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced.And so these great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of theirextraordinary journey were destroyed. And with them! the knowledge thatthe Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan! reachedAmerica seventy years before Columbus! and Australia three hundred andfifty years before Cook. Informationen zum Autor Gavin Menzies Klappentext An account of the voyage of Emperor Zhu Di's fleet and the remarkable discoveries they made. The result of 15 years of research, hardback sales have reached over 60,000. "... an intriguing and highly persuasive thesis, told with passion and energy" "Evening Standard" Zusammenfassung In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. But by the time they returned home, Zhu Di had lost control and China was turning inwards, leaving the records of their discoveries to be forgotten for centuries.
