Ok, I get it, Gavin Menzies is full of shit. But is there any useful information in this book or will I walk away with wrong ideas about basically everything? How is his depiction of Ming China? Chinese naval technology? The biographies of the mariners?
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Historians' views of Gavin Menzies' "1421: The Year China Discovered the World"
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