Een voormalig Brits onderzeeërcommandant en amateurhistoricus die zich verdiept in onconventionele historische verhalen en gevestigde tijdlijnen en oorsprongen uitdaagt. Zijn werk stelt dat belangrijke wereldwijde ontdekkingen en culturele bewegingen afkomstig waren van beschavingen buiten het typische westers-centrische perspectief. Hij nodigt lezers uit om geaccepteerde historische verslagen in twijfel te trekken door intrigerende alternatieve theorieën te onderzoeken. De onderscheidende aanpak van de auteur is gericht op het blootleggen van over het hoofd geziene aspecten van de geschiedenis en het herformuleren van ons begrip van gebeurtenissen uit het verleden.
Combining in-depth research with an adventurer's spirit to present a radical rethinking and new revelations relating to the Beringia theory of how humans discovered, explored, and settled the American continent.
The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Updated with thrilling new discoveries for the paperback.
The book presents a provocative argument that the Renaissance was ignited by Chinese advancements in 1434, rather than solely through classical influences from Greece and Rome. It asserts that China, as the most technologically advanced civilization of the time, significantly shaped European thought and innovation. Bestselling historian Gavin Menzies explores how the adoption of Chinese ideas, discoveries, and inventions laid the groundwork for the development of Western civilization, challenging traditional narratives of the Renaissance's origins.
On 3/8/1421, 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" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. Most 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 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, "1421" rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it's been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation.