> -----Original Message----- > From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America > > > Jeffrey Miller 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/eog > an-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. > > And four centuries after the Norse?
Yeah, but his claim is that they /really/ explored it, charted it, left records about it, and knowledge of such exploration drifted westward to influence early European explorers. -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
