1421: The Year China Discovered America – The Great Fleet That Reached America Before Columbus and Circumnavigated the Globe Richard J. Foster This illuminating book remains essential

This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy"A fascinating book

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1421: The Year China Discovered America – The Great Fleet That Reached America Before Columbus and Circumnavigated the Globe Richard J. Foster This illuminating book remains essentialOn March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home 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 the long, self imposed isolation that