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category: Transportation
published: Oct 2008
ISBN:9781771004503
publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet

In Search of a Legendary Armada

by James P. Delgado

tagged: history, naval, china
Description

In 1279, off China’s southeast coast, Khubilai Khan routed the Song navy and completed the grand dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khan—the conquest of China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world had ever seen, stretching from the China Sea to the plains of Hungary. Having also inadvertently inherited the world’s largest navy—more than seven hundred ships—the Mongols began audacious attacks on Japan, Vietnam and Java. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai had squandered his massive fleet, and the Mongols were a spent maritime force.

Considered for centuries to be little more than legend, the story of the Mongols’ fleet has finally been confirmed. Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has dived with the Japanese team studying the remains of the Khan’s lost fleet at Takashima. Using original sources as diverse as actual sunken ships, land excavations, temple inscriptions, hand-painted scrolls and historical and literary records from China, Japan and Vietnam, Delgado takes the reader on an exciting history of Khubilai Khan’s great Mongol navy, whose rise and fall presaged the great fleets of the fifteenth-century Ming Dynasty, made famous in the best-seller 1421.

About the Author

James P. Delgado, PhD, FRGS, RPA, is Director of Maritime Heritage for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries based in Washington, DC. He is an historian and maritime archaeologist who has investigated shipwrecks around the world for nearly four decades. With Clive Cussler, he hosted "The Sea Hunters," a National Geographic International TV series that played for five seasons to millions of viewers in 172 countries. Dr. Delgado is the author or editor of thirty three books, including the international best-sellers Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea, Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada.

Awards
  • Winner, The Deetz Award

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