加文·孟席斯,英国皇家海军退伍军官。1937年生于中国,两年后因第二次世界大战爆发始离开。1953年加入英国皇家海军,1957年在“钻石”号驱逐舰上服役于地中海海域。1959年,在“纽芬兰”号上担任航海指挥官,服役于远东海域。1960年调到“决心”号战略导弹核潜艇,任作战官。1968年担任“鳁鲸”号潜艇艇长,被授予海军中校,执行全球航行访问任务。在皇家海军的服役期间,他曾率舰沿着世界上伟大的航海家哥伦布、迪亚斯、卡布拉尔和达·伽马的航线行遍世界。退伍之后,他曾多次走访中国与亚洲各国,专注于中国明代郑和航海的调查与研究。
加文·孟席斯先生已婚,有二女,现寓居于伦敦北部。
On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research, 1421 is Gavin Menzies' enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic, this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.
这本书可以有很多种不同的读法。 你可以自豪的说:还是咱们中国人牛,美洲澳洲第一次环球航行都是中国人完成的! 你也可以痛心疾首的说:明朝中后期的这些白痴皇帝为什么要闭关锁国,销毁来之不易的宝贵的航海资料,自毁世界上最强大的海军,造成中国积弱的开始。 你也可以满...
评分昨天刚在图书馆偶然发现这么一本书。 发现还是外国人有耐心,能写这么一本书出来。 幸好学过地理,关于洋流季风还能理解。 不幸的是高中时候没好好学。 读了三分之一之时。突然有两个想法冒出来。 1作者没有考虑到大陆漂移说?还是我没有看到,在后面部分。 2郑和船队环游了世...
评分 评分老祖宗把郑和们远航的资料几乎销毁殆尽,同时严格限制海上往来,从此累积的航海技术就无从以文字流传,只散落在沿海的民间,或者官方颓败的造船厂中,最终在日益严厉的海禁中领先的航海技术也散失,不可避免的落后于世界。 中国广大的陆地和以农耕为主的经济结构也注定国家不会...
评分读这本书,是对郑和最好的纪念。明永乐三年六月十五日,即1405年7月11日,明成祖朱棣下旨,令郑和组织船队下西洋。从江苏太仓刘家港编队集结出海。郑和在古里立碑纪念,碑文说“其国去中国十万余里,民物咸若,熙皓同风,刻石于兹,永昭万世。”这是郑和在国外建立最早的一块碑。郑和...
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评分以大量可查资料为后盾,作者提出了郑和发现新大陆的论点。
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