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Catalogue Number: 040474
ISBN Number: 0793646308
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: World History
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2004
Running Time: 120
Closed Captions: Yes
1421: The Year China Discovered America?

Catalogue Number: 040474
ISBN Number: 0793646308
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: World History
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2004
Running Time: 120
Closed Captions: Yes
This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Menzies poses an argument that could change the way we perceive global history forever -- that Chinese admirals discovered America and Chinese junks first circled the earth.