History Express: The Great Explorer Cheng Ho - Ambassador of Peace - Softcover

Lim Li Kok

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9812294104 ISBN 13: 9789812294104

Publisher: Asiapac Books, 2005

Synopsis

Columbus, de Gama and Magellan are all familiar and loud-sounding names to us from the western Great Age of Exploration (1400-1550). Columbus is well known as the discoverer of America; de Gama is the first European to sail to India; and Magellan is believed to have completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. However, such common-sense knowledge has met a serious and subversive challenge with the rediscovery of the great Chinese navigator and explorer Cheng Ho (1371-1435). Over a span of twenty-eight years from 1405 to 1433, he directed seven large-scale voyages to the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, having left his mark in over thirty countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia and East Africa. Historians have even suggested that Cheng and his massive fleet could have made their way to America and Australia. All these outstanding voyages were made well before Cheng’s European counterparts… * How much do you know about Cheng Ho and the voyages he commanded? * When and how did these voyages take place? * What influences have these historic voyages exerted on the places Cheng had set his feet on? * In what aspects is Cheng different from those later European explorers, and implications do these differences have for us today? In this book, you will find the answers to the above, and more!

Edition details

• Publisher: Asiapac Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9812294104
• ISBN 13: 9789812294104
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Illustrator: Fu Chunjiang