The evidence is massive,” said Gavin Menzies of his new theory. ”I’ve got it coming out of my eyes!” His voice was filled with excitement, just as you’d expect from someone propounding one of the most revolutionary ideas in the history of history. A retired navy man with white hair, Menzies still has a hint of red in the eyebrows that frame his ocean-blue eyes. Dressed in a handsome sports jacket and tie, he cheerfully invited me into his stately Georgian house in the Canonbury section of London. What he had to say, his publicists had warned me in breathless e-mail messages, would make ”every history book in print obsolete.” NY Times