A review by statman
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

2.0

Before you read this book, Google the topic and make sure you read some of the stuff from historians who claim this book is a sham and completely unsubstantiated. Then you can decide if you want to ready it. It is quite a spectacular and controversial claim to say the Chinese sailed the whole world before any of the Europeans did. It was harder to get through because of the writing style. The first 100 pages or so were not too bad but then the author just keeps repeating the same claims over and over again without really providing much evidence. When you get something so controversial like this book, it is a good bet that neither of the extreme views is correct with the truth somewhere in the middle.