> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Sloan II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 08:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America > > > Miller, Jeffrey wrote: > > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/01/13/1421/index.html > > > http://www.1421.tv/ > > > NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his new book, "1421: The Year China Discovered > > America" (William Morrow) > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060537639/eogan-20 > > Gavin Menzies claims that a massive Chinese fleet of huge junks and > > support ships made a two-year circumnavigation of the globe, with > > extensive exploration of the Americas, nearly a century before > > Magellan and Columbus. > > I thought that was fairly common knowledge
Yup. Its just suddenly getting more play because of this new book, which is actually more about the Chinese exploration of the North American western coastline. Nothing terribly new is presented (if you follow such wacky hollow/secret history & exploration lore) other than the gathering together in one slickly packaged book the various details, facts, and theories. > Columbus' trip was different, > because after he arrived, European presence in the New World > became permanent, and never stopped. Columbus' timing was > just better. Columbus explored in a time period and for a patron that would financially support continued exploration, to be sure. -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
