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![]() ![]() Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434, sparked the Renaissance, and forever changed the course of Western civilization. However, a stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. ![]() Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop there. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There is no getting better,” he acknowledges. John is a decent husband and a loving father.until he can’t be anymore. Before their third child is born, John loses his London investment job and moves the family near Boston, where his struggles to fend off “the beast” continue to interfere at home and work. “His mind closes down,” his doctor tells her. She learns that his history of incapacitating bouts of depression started in childhood. Trouble begins early in a flashback to 1960s London when a young, spirited American, Margaret, is blindsided by the discovery that her charming, steadfast, British fiancé, John, has been hospitalized. Adam Haslett's second novel, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown, 356 pp., *** out of four stars), is a gut-wrenching immersion into mental illness and its debilitating impact on a family over four decades. ![]() |