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GAVIN MENZIES was born in 1937 and lived in China for two years before World War II. He joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and served in submarines from 1959 to 1970. In the course of researching 1421, he visited 120 countries, over 900 museums and libraries, and every major sea port of the late Middle Ages. He is married with two daughters and lives in North London.
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Open source anthropology, with some speculation to drive the contention the Chinese armada visited Venice in 1434. It begins with the assertion that the Chinese surveyed the Pacific Coast of the Americas, and that is how Columbus and Vespucci had maps of the Atlantic before they began their voyages. Pacific vs Atlantic is where I stopped reading. Very interesting about Admiral He, but the book is light on solid evidence.
These books remind me greatly of James Churchwald's series on the Pacific continent called Mu. I loved those books when I was in my teens. I am much older now.
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