The Tale of the Palace Eunuch Sanbao's Journey to the Western Ocean (set of 3 volumes)

A classic Chinese novel, created in the late 16th century, tells of the large-scale expeditions of the Chinese fleet, led by Admiral Zheng He — a palace eunuch of Muslim descent. Information from documentary materials, woven into the fantastical-adventurous foundation of the novel and accompanied by elements of both religious-mythological and folk comedic culture, presents a broad panorama of court life and military traditions of medieval China, the countries of South and Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the eastern coast of Africa.