Stream 1421: The Year China Discovered The World online in english with english subtitles in 4K 16:96/2/2017 Will the Real Gavin Menzies Please Stand Up? Will the Real Gavin Menzies Please Stand Up? An Unauthorized Sketch of the Author of 1. The Year China Discovered the World (1)Captain P. 1421: The Year China Discovered America. 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to.J. Rivers. This short biography is intended to put into perspective Mr Gavin Menzies’ background and qualifications and not to discredit him in order to discount his specious yarn of global voyages. Nor does is it denigrate the undoubted glories that are China’s heritage and early Chinese contacts with other parts of the world. Much of Menzies’ creative imagination has already been refuted in “1. Voyages: Fact and Fantasy by Captain P. J. Rivers(2), master mariner, naval reservist and former lecturer in nautical studies. Recently certain major points were disclosed in . Comment on Gavin Menzies, 1421. Menzies entitled 1421 : The Year China Discovered the World 1. Will the Real Gavin Menzies Please Stand Up? The dust cover of 1421: The Year China Discovered the World has “Gavin Menzies. Popular History and Bunkum The book '1421. I purchased a copy of Gavin Menzies' '1421: The Year China Discovered the World', published by Transworld. Carried out by the investigative reporter Quentin Mc. Dermott, it disclosed the publishing background for a so- called revisionist history by a previously unknown writer (4). A startling revelation was made that Gavin Menzies did not, repeat not, actually write what he calls “my book”. As put by Mc. Dermott: “Among those brought in to help was an experienced ghost- writer” (5)! Indeed, Menzies had done “an extraordinary thing, he asked his agent to re- write the early chapters”. Everyone concerned agreed that Menzies couldn’t write and the task of producing the book was left to others. Because of uncertainty of who actually wrote the text of 1. ![]()
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