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1421, The Year China Discovered America

1421, The Year China Discovered America

by Gavin Menzies

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Former submarine commander Menzies' provocative argument that the largest fleet of ships the world had ever seen, navigated by the Chinese, discovered America 70 years before Columbus. Discredited by most scholars, it is nonetheless interesting reading.  (CHN216, $15.95)


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