Gavin Menzies
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish naval officer and author (1937-2020)
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Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions and have categorised his work as pseudohistory.
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![Photograph of HMS Newfoundland, on which Gavin Menzies claims to have been stationed as an officer in 1959.[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/HMS_Newfoundland.jpg/500px-HMS_Newfoundland.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Photograph of HMS Newfoundland, on which Gavin Menzies claims to have been stationed as an officer in 1959.[12]![Menzies was inspired to write 1421 after a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, China with his wife Marcella for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.[15]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Forbidden_City_Beijing_Shenwumen_Gate.JPG/1280px-Forbidden_City_Beijing_Shenwumen_Gate.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Menzies was inspired to write 1421 after a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, China with his wife Marcella for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.[15]![Map showing the voyages of Zheng He accepted by mainstream historians. In 1421, Gavin Menzies challenged these routes, claiming that Zheng He's fleet actually travelled all over the world, visiting the Americas, the Caribbean, Greenland, the Pacific, and Australia, establishing colonies, and eventually circumnavigating the globe.[15]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Voyages_of_Zheng_He.png/500px-Voyages_of_Zheng_He.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Map showing the voyages of Zheng He accepted by mainstream historians. In 1421, Gavin Menzies challenged these routes, claiming that Zheng He's fleet actually travelled all over the world, visiting the Americas, the Caribbean, Greenland, the Pacific, and Australia, establishing colonies, and eventually circumnavigating the globe.[15]Writers from United Kingdom 6
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Lived 1937 to 2020 · aged 82
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