by Gavin Menzies · Transworld/Bantam Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780593050781
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In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from China under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last over two years and circle the globe. In the course of their journey, the Chinese ships reached America seventy years before Columbus, circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans.
Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions and have categorised his work as pseudohistory.
