kimlynne 's review for:

1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

1.0

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Ok, I don't typically give up on books, nor do I put up reviews for books I only got 1/3 of the way through. But as I was reading this one, I grew more and more uneasy with the content. Not that I have some problem with the Chinese as epic explorers or that they beat Europe to the goods, but because some of the things he seemed so comfortable portraying as fact didn't seem to have the weight of adequate sources or valid research to back it up. So I put it down and started doing some of my own research and found several cites by credentialed academics debunking many of the author's assertions.

So, I put it down. Not interested in a "history" that is not.