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1 online resource (1 audio file (780 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Simon Vance. |
| Summary |
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted in America and other countries the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Voyages around the world.
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Discoveries in geography -- Chinese.
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America -- Discovery and exploration.
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China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
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Vance, Simon, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Fourteen twenty-one |
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One thousand four hundred twenty-one |
| ISBN |
9780062343680 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062343688 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11586888 |
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