Название: When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
Автор: Louise Levathes
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195112075
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 4,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world's "four corners."