A review by olevin84
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

adventurous informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

3.0

I can definitely see why some people find this book to be nonfactual. I personally believe that most things mentioned in this book are in fact very factual. But there are instances where the author runs into a dead end of certain aspects of cartography by saying that a European nor other civilizations who are known for their explorations could’ve possibly been able to achieve or have the knowledge to achieve in drawing up these maps (that’s just one example), so therefore there’s only one group that did it and it has to be the Chinese. By and large I have nothing against his research, I think that in many areas of the book the author’s research is well done. Just that his, “Therefore, it must be/most likely were/could only be the Chinese”, leads me to believe that the author doesn’t know how to elaborate further on the subject.