James Churchward (27 February 1851 – 4 January 1936) was a British writer, inventor, engineer, and fisherman.
Churchward is most notable for proposing the existence of a lost continent, called "Mu," in the Pacific Ocean. His writings on Mu are considered to be pseudoscience.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Gardner, Martin. (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications. p. 170. ISBN 0-486-20394-8
- ^ Fagan, Brian M. (1996). The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 582. ISBN 978-0195076189
- ^ Williams, William F. (2000). Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy. Facts on File. p. 225. ISBN 978-0816033515
- ^ Nunn, Patrick D. (2008). Vanished Islands And Hidden Continents of the Pacific. University of Hawaii Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0824832193