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Gavin Menzies (born 1937) is a retired British submarine commander and amateur historian best known as the author of the controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, which asserts that ships from the Chinese fleet of admiral Zheng He travelled to the Americas prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and circumnavigated the globe a century before Ferdinand Magellan as part of the era of Chinese exploration. This thesis has been discounted as "nonsense"Reuters UK. "Columbus debunker sets sights on Leonardo da Vinci." Tue Jul 29, 2008. by professional historians.

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Uniform title: 1421, the year China discovered the world. Chinese
by Menzies, Gavin
Taibei Shi : Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2003
 
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