鄭和七下西洋：真正的航海英雄辛巴達（英）

　　這是一部關于15世紀中國探險航海家鄭和的傳記。奉明朝黃帝朱棣之命，鄭和建造了一支由300多艘寶船組成的船隊，其中一些船只比足球場還大。他帶領船隊七次遠征東南亞、印度阿拉伯及非洲等地。一些歷史學家認為，在哥倫布開始探索新大陸之前60年，鄭和可能已經航行到了澳大利亞、歐洲和美洲。他的航海事跡可能就是電影《航海英雄辛巴達傳奇》的靈感來源。全書用淺顯的語言講述了鄭和的一生，尤其是七次下西洋的精彩故事。文字通俗易懂，生動傳神，有畫面感，非常適合兒童閱讀，也適合對中國歷史中國故事感興趣的外國讀者閱讀。 “The Seven Voyages of Zheng He; The Real Sinbad the Sailor，” is a mid-grade （ages 10-18） biography about the 15th Century Chinese explorer， Zheng He. At the instigation of Ming Emperor Zhu Di， Zheng He built a fleet of over 300 treasure ships， some of them larger than a football field， and led them on seven expeditions to S.E. Asia， India， Arabia， and Africa. Some historians believe he may also have sailed to Australia， Europe， and the Americas sixty years before Columbus set out to discover the New World. His journeys may have been the inspiration for the Legend of Sinbad the Sailor. Zheng He was a Muslim by birth， a Buddhist by training and， in practice， a follower of Matsu， the Chinese Goddess of the Seas. He was also exemplary in that he was able to spread the power and influence of the Ming Dynasty by peaceful means rather than through military conquest.

　　本書作者Don Morreale，美國國籍，居住于科羅拉多州丹佛市。高中開始創(chuàng)作，用英文出版了兩本關于佛教的書籍：《美國佛教徒——靜修與實踐》，約翰繆爾出版社（1988年）和《美國佛教徒完全指南》，香巴拉出版社（1998年）。他曾作為《丹佛郵報》專欄作家，每周撰寫一篇關于科羅拉多普通人的故事。他曾獲美國丹佛大學創(chuàng)意寫作碩士學位，并在五年期間內多次赴中國杭州的浙江理工大學及尼泊爾的加德滿都大學（2015年）任教英文寫作及英文演講。在中國任教期間，他為撰寫關于鄭和的書而專程赴南京進行了現場研究。 Don Morreale began writing in high school. He has two books in print on Buddhism in the West; Buddhist America; Centers Retreats， and Practices， John Muir Publications （1988）， and The Complete Guide to Buddhist America， Shambhala Publications （1998）. For several years he wrote a weekly column for the Denver Post about interesting Colorado characters which he later combined into a book entitled Cowboys， Yogis， and One-Legged Ski Bums; The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Coloradans， XLibris （2014）. He also self-published a book of essays by his students at Kathmandu University entitled We Will Rebuild; Survivors’ Tales of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake . With regard to his academic credentials， Morreale has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Denver， and taught writing and public speaking over a five year period at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou， China， and at Kathmandu University in Nepal in 2015. While in China， he did on-site research in Nanjing for his book on Zheng He.