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 enlarge | Author: Gavin Menzies
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  256 reviews
Sales Rank: 6027
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 672
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.6
ISBN: 0061564893
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780061564895
ASIN: 0061564893
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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 Amazing September 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A truly amazing story of how one man, little by little, pieced together shreds of evidence of the tremendous fleet of huge ships that China sent around the world 600 years ago. And well written.
Intriguing perspective September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)
New and unorthodox ideas are always fascinating and this book has plentiful. The presented evidence is sound and one very quickly turns to be a believer - it is hard at first but in a perspective there is a need to realize that Europeans were neither the first nor the best in a variety of cultural aspects including discoveries
 Kept in the dark August 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Easy, fascinating read. Well researched and presented in a balanced way that allows you to follow the authors' thinking and discoveries. The book exposes the fallacies of conventional western teaching of history and Europe `discovering' the world.
A Great Read. August 28, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is no more "fantasy" than the "accepted" version of events!
It was a great read, especially compared to official (probably made-up)Eurocentric boring accounts.
If Menzies can get people passionate about ancient history then who cares just WHO went where and when? It's a good read.
Just who did sail the oceans blue? August 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
1421 is a highly intriguing (and certainly controversial) book which postulates a theory that the Chinese were not only the first to "discover" the New World but had; indeed, circumvented the globe well before Magellan's expedition. While the author, Gavin Menzies, makes many assumptions and, at times, makes what appear to be rather wild suggestions concerning his theories, many of them do remain quite plausible.
Unlike others who have made outlandish claims as regarding early settlers in the Americas first (including the claims by one of this country's largest cults that continues to assert, in light of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that a non-existent group of ancient Israelis, the Nephites and the Lamanites are the ancestors of Native Americans), many of Menzies' intriguing ideas are capable of being further tested and examined for their veracity.
I was particularly fascinated with Menzies' (a former commander of a British submarine) use of ancient maps as the impetus for his theory. Granted, there are those that will rush to snub their noses at Menzies' ideas but certainly with further study, which is something that I believe the author would personally encourage, they will eventually be proven or discarded. Regardless, 1421 is a fascinating book and I would recommend it to anyone who might be interested in examining alternative views of history (of course, with both eyes open to test the veracity of this book).
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