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.
就我自己的看法来看,本书的作者所持有的证据是不足的。可是有多少人是一拍脑门,就觉得他的说法是不可能的呢?又有多少人是一拍脑门就说原来如此的呢? 看我这篇评论的你也许不是,但是这种一拍脑门的人确实存在,而且还非常多。很多历史事实和历史真相,在我们知之甚少的时候...
评分 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...
评分只是尚不知有无汉语班的。 另外就是《1421》的内容,真多少、假多少,我想知道,却又尚无办法知道。
无法确定可信度。 不过可以感受一下当年中国在海上曾是多么牛B
评分It's just too long.
评分刚才看到九二君写的书评突然想起年少无知的时候一度以为这就是传说中大名鼎鼎的万历十五年的英文版……神秘的错觉。。。而且刚才试图找这本的时候记不清年份试了好多遍。
评分无意中在网上发现了这本书,一直想读.又是无意在上海机场看到了她,想也没想就买下了.虽然比较昂贵,但完全没有后悔.她为我开启了海上中国的历史航道.
评分无法确定可信度。 不过可以感受一下当年中国在海上曾是多么牛B
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