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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed Paperback – November 13, 2012

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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (November 13, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062049496
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062049490
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
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3.0 out of 5 starsAs Always With Menzies, Intriguing, But . . .
By John D. Cofield TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 12, 2011
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Gavin Menzies is an impressively clever and imaginative man. As a retired Royal Navy submarine officer, he is a throwback to the days of the gifted amateur historian/archaeologists who sometimes made discoveries that had been overlooked by professionals, and who sometimes made gigantic misinterpretations of what they had "discovered." With Menzies its sometimes hard to tell which he has done. His experience in the Royal Navy has enabled him to analyze shipping routes and interpret the roles of currents and sea levels far better than many other historians with less sailing experience. But unfortunately his enthusiasm and tendency to make giant leaps of faith when interpreting data often leads him to exagerrate or to see connections where there really are none.

With The Lost Empire of Atlantis Menzies postulates that the Minoans of Crete created a world wide shipping and trading empire that stretched from the Middle East through Europe all the way to North America, and that this empire was the basis for the Atlantis legend, including its violent and sudden end when a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera devastated Crete around 1450 BCE. There's really nothing new in Menzies' connecting the Minoans to Atlantis, nor is there in his descriptions of Minoan civilization, which was indeed as advanced and artistic as he describes it. What's new is his idea that the Minoans sailed far and wide, for which he offers little real evidence.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsCharles Pellegrino told this story better....
By Gregory Johnson on November 21, 2011
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Menzies' new book is entertaining, but speculations are often presented as facts. A much better exploration of the "Thera was Atlantis" hypothesis is found in Charles Pellegrino's excellent Unearthing Atlantis, published in 1991 and still available in paper. He presents the decades-long work of archaeologists Spyridon Marinatos and Christos Doumas on the island of Thera. In the late 1960's, Marinatos discovered what initially he took to be a Minoan royal palace. However, he soon had to radically broaden the scope of the find. Test digs as far as a half mile away revealed other dwellings just as grand as the first, all connected by an intricate network of streets. These buildings had plumbing almost as sophisticated as that available today with hot and cold running water, bathtubs and toilets. Unfortunately, this beautiful civilization was built on an active volcanic island, and one day it exploded, vaporizing over a cubic mile of island in a matter of seconds, and wiping this sophisticated civilization from the face of the earth.

Charles Pellegrino has worked in entomology, forensic physics, paleo-genetics, preliminary design of advanced rocket systems, astrobiology, and marine archaeology. He is the scientist whose dinosaur-cloning recipe inspired Michael Crichton's bestselling novel Jurassic Park, and he worked with James Cameron on his research and innovative underwater exploration equipment that led to the discover of the Titanic. He is a fascinating and gifted writer, and his book runs rings around the new Menzies book.
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1.0 out of 5 starsJust Idle Speculation
By Arch Stanton on March 2, 2012
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Surprising no one this book is filled entirely with speculation presented as fact, and fact treated as merely an inconvenience. We are entering the realm of pseudohistory and any attempt to wring out "facts" is bound to be confusing. Gavin Menzies is a former naval officer whose previous books (1421 and 1434) revealed how another naval culture (China)'s forgotten naval past was responsible for discovering America and starting the Italian Renaissance. Looking back even further he found another culture who's pattern in no way resembles his previous book. The Atlanteans (Minoans) discovered America and stimulated civilization throughout Europe. Amazing.

So his unfounded assertions are these:
1. The Atlanteans were really Minoans.
2. They not only discovered America but ran a major copper mine in Lake Superior.
3. They built Stonehenge and every other stone circle in Europe, despite not doing so on their own soil.

His evidence for such earth-shattering conclusions is:
1. The Minoans used copper of 99% purity. Only in Lake Superior was copper of this purity to be found naturally.
2. That's it.
3. No really, that's it. There is nothing else.

Aside from the fact that I question his basic assertion on that copper thing, proving that the Minoans did any of these things requires finding archaeological finds of a recognizably Minoan type in at least some of the sites in question.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsTwo Stars

Waffles on a lot - all about "me" and what "I" have worked out - supposedly.

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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Worth reading but not as good as 1491.

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2.0 out of 5 starsTwo Stars

There are some pages cut out of the back and this was disheartening.

Published 1 month ago by Heidi Loop
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book! Slow at first, then I couldn't put it down.

Published 2 months ago by Pamela Crowe
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is an excellent read and convincing beyond any reasonable doubt

Again, Gavin Menzies unearths a multitude of facts, and as far as I'm concerned there is no mystery about Atlantis any longer. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Gordon Phares
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Published 5 months ago by rob37
5.0 out of 5 starsHighly recommended.

This was fascinating account of one of the most influential and misunderstood empires of the ancient world. Read more

Published 6 months ago by thomas R obrien
5.0 out of 5 starsMore than Speculation. A Must Read for fans of legitimate historical...

The Ivory Tower cynics can say what they like, but no one is better than Menzies at proposing credible scenarios behind well known unexplained historical anomolies. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Jerard
5.0 out of 5 starsConvincing

Amazingly comprehensive and conveniencing.

Published 6 months ago by Anthony Futch
4.0 out of 5 starsAtlantis Revisited

Well researched, but maybe a little too speculative. Interesting reading however.

Published 6 months ago by David L Bowman Sr

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