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Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: History's Greatest Naval Disaster

Door James Delgado

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#267956
Titel
Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: History's Greatest Naval Disaster
Auteur
Delgado, James
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London, The Bodley Head
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
1847920780
ISBN13
9781847920782
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

After finally achieving what eluded even his grandfather Ghengis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan turned his sights to Japan, which he attacked with an immense armada in 1274. Vastly outnumbered and facing total massacre, the Japanese prayed to their gods for survival, and the very next day Khan's entire armada was destroyed by a 'divine wind' (kamikaze). When Khan tried again seven years later, with a fleet double the size of the first, the very same thing happened. The legend of the kamikaze - revived as a Japanese national legend as they modernised and militarised, culminating in the suicide bombers of WWII - has endured for centuries. Now, after decades of painstaking research and underwater excavation, marine archaeologist James D... (Lees verder)elgado has discovered what really happened. Based on original sources as diverse as actual sunken ships, archeological excavations on land, temple inscriptions, hand-painted scrolls, woodblock prints, and historical and literary records from China, Japan and Vietnam, Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet is a captivating journey back through the mists of time. It tells the fascinating tale of the great Mongol's maritime forays, offers a compelling study of where myth, legend and history blend and blur, and solves one of history's greatest mysteries: what sank the Khan's immense fleet?
Pagina's
225
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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