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020 _a9780060537630
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_cKutubkhanah Diraja
082 _a910.4
100 _93657
_aMenzies, Gavin
245 _a1421:
_bThe Year China Discovered America
_c Gavin Menzies
260 _aNew York
_bHarperCollins
_c2003
300 _a552p
520 _a Menzies contends that a massive Chinese fleet under Zheng He circumnavigated the globe around 1421, reaching the Americas and other continents decades before Columbus. The book presents claims of Chinese maps, wreckage artifacts, and Eurasian crop transmissions, although it has been highly criticized for weak evidence and questionable methods .
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