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Walrus Pitch & Other Novelties:
Gavin Menzies & the Far North
Kirsten Seaver
“Some four years have passed since knowledgeable critics began to take apart Gavin Menzies’s published assertion that the task of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama and other early European explorers had been considerably simplified by their access to maps incorporating key information collected by medieval Chinese navigators who supposedly preceded them: thus it is hardly news that 1421: The Year China Discovered America is now seen primarily as a completely unsubstantiated hypothesis dressed up as history. More
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Fathoming the Unfathomable:
Even Leviathans have Limits
Dr. Stephen Davies, Museum Director
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
“...the technical absurdity of supposing that the largest ships in the Star or Treasure Fleets of Zhenghe could have been of the size too often supposed. The proposed behemoths fail almost any test naval architecture can come up with for assessing their navigability. They almost certainly could not have been built with available 15th century Chinese technology. Had they been, then for similar reasons it is improbable that they could successfully have been launched. Paper
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Most outrageous claims
by Mr. Menzies in "1421"
Dr. Geoff Wade
Menzies 10 most outrageous claims. More
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Media
Writer Trashes Origin of Maori
Menzies says Maori don’t exist as race.
Michael Field, Dominion Post, 6 May 2006
Theory cooks up history
The theory the Chinese were first everywhere is about to make a beachhead at the University of Melbourne
Bernard Lane, The Australian, April 26, 2006
Beware fleets of fantasy
There is no evidence Chinese sailors first discovered Australia. Geoff Wade, The Australian April 26, 2006
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Junk History
This is not just a story about ones man’s wild theory. It is a parable of modern popular culture, a tale about intellectual chutzpah and about a publishing industry that knows how to extract profit from a public which wants to thumb its nose at the dry though documented history taught at school.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Verbatim Script
4 Corners Documentary
Gavin Menzies’ Cartographic Fiction:
The Case Of The Chinese ‘Discovery’ of Australia
Dr Bill Richardson
This article critically examines the evidence and claims made by Gavin Menzies of Ming Dynasty Chinese circumnavigation of the world in 1421: the year China discovered the World. It concludes that the evidence presented remains highly speculative and is not sufficient to justify the conclusions Menzies draws.
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The Chinese Colonisation of New Zealand
Dr. Michael King
One of New Zealand’s foremost historians puts Menzies’ claims to a factual test. More
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1421 and all that Junk
Emeritus Professor Victor Prescott
Many members of the community of scholars who specialize in the history of cartography have criticized this text (1421) severely. This lecture reviews some of the reasons why Menzies interpretation of cartographic history should not be trusted. More
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Did the Chinese Circumnavigate the World in 1421?
or
Why Menzies’ 1421 Won’t Sail
Captain P. J. Rivers, FRGS FNI MRIN ACII ACI Arb, Master Mariner
“According to the author, his main thrust is every great European explorer, from Columbus in 1492 to Captain Cook in 1768, sailed with charts showing their destinations. This prior knowledge supposedly came from a single source - a Portuguese World Map of 1428 (p.107), solely mentioned by the historian Galvano who died in 1557.”
...“This entertaining amateur ‘detective’ novel, masquerading as revisionist history, may well prove to be the Piltdown Man of literature and should only be classified as fiction”. Paper
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1421EXPOSED.COM
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This website has been set up by an international group of academics and researchers who are greatly concerned about the myths being created and perpetuated by Gavin Menzies, his team, and his publishers...more
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