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Secret Voyages

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All of Gunnar Thompson's previous books are well worth reading. This one contains many interesting insights. However, it not up to his usually standard of academic excellence.

Secret Voyages relies primarily on many speculative claims. He offers little evidence in support of the narrative. It makes a good story but how much of it is true?

When Thompson injects invective into his text, he diminishes its credibility. His speculation about Jesus not dying on the cross is part and parcel of the long standing freemason/rosicrucian Satanist contention. His statements about mystics reveal that he does not have any idea what a mystic is. Thus he frequently misuses the term.

His analysis of Marco Polo in particular and some of the other explorers in general counterbalances the flaws. The citations of the many maps which show the western hemisphere and that predate Columbus are valuable, but how about photographs of them to support his thesis?

All in all, the book is worth a look but only with a critical eye to separate the valuable tracts from the unfounded ones.

This is one of a collection of books debunking the myth that Columbus

discovered America, as we were taught in school. Traditional historians

seem to resist all such efforts in order to cling to their mythical history

while evidence mounts to debunk them. I consider this book as required

reading along with 1421, America BC, The Asiatic Fathers of America.

Wonderful exposition. Evidence to back up the conclusions. Sufficient

scholarship to at least cause people to think about how implausible it is

that no one got to the Americas before Columbus.

Not being a history buff, I was skeptical when my friend recommended Secret Voyages. However, once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. Gunnar's casual writing style is easily accessible to all. And the addition of humor makes Secret Voyages a delight to read.

This book was great! It shows that our US history books are full of fairy tales. Columbus had maps from previous explorations to the new world. The illustrations are awesome.