Joanne & Lyle,

Thank you both for your insightful and full explanations on the book I am 
reading. It is a good story, but knowing that it is fiction does not take 
away from the writing, just on the knowledge. In the section I was reading 
last night, Mezier asserts that the Chinese Explorers left a stone monument 
on the Verdes islands off the west coast of Africa. Unfortunately, when it 
was examined, the medieval language was from India rather than from China. 
If the Chinese wanted to prove they were there, why would they not leave the 
stones in their own language? Other passages have given me pause to question 
his tale as well.

In recent months, I've read 1491 by Charles Mann, and re-read The Invasion 
of America by Jennings. One or both mentions the Asian features and items 
found among Native societies, and Mann mentions Asian DNA in some as well. 
Mann postulates that in addition to the Natives who arrived in America via 
the Bering Strait, there could have also been an incursion that crossed the 
Pacific at or near Antartica and traveled up the coast of South America, 
probably in small boats, to build an early civilization on the coast of 
Peru.

One of the things that Menzies does that bothers me, is constantly asserting 
that he is better equipped than historians and anthropologists to discover 
these "truths" because he is a first class "navigator" and can read sea 
charts!

Again, thanks for the insights and links!

Anne

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