1421
Subtitle: the year China discovered America
By: Gavin Menzies.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Discoveries in geography -- Chinese; Voyages around the world; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Chinese; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Other titles: One thousand four hundred twenty-one; Fourteen twenty-one
Description: This volume presents the author's assertion that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, and that this same Chinese fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan. The author presents a series of vignettes describing his travels around the globe, examining what he claims is evidence for his "1421 hypothesis", interspersed with speculation and description of the achievements of Admiral Zheng's fleet.

"A remarkable journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history"--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain by: Transworld Publishers. 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-536) and index.