(NAME-MCE) New book: "1434"

[sheila hamanaka]

According to Gavin Menzies, the author of the new book "1434: The Year 
a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the 
Renaissance," Columbus had a Chinese chart when he set sail, and the 
Leonardo da Vinci did not invent canals and locks or imagine all those 
fantastic machines. They were based on the drawings of other Europeans 
who copied them from the Chinese.

http://www.gavinmenzies.net/

Watch a video clip of Menzies talking about how readers around the 
world responded to his request for evidence. This collective effort 
resulted in 1434, the book about how China sparked the Renaissance in 
Europe.

I also highly recommend the book "1421" about the massive Chinese 
"treasure fleets" that circumnavigated the globe. Look for the later 
edition, in paperback. And see the website www.1421.tv

Africans claim they are descended from Chinese - an interesting report 
from a NYTimes journalist:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sultan/explorers.html