Subject: Re: [harryproa] 1421/schooner |
From: Robert McArthur |
Date: 3/9/2009, 7:48 PM |
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au |
Reply-to: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au |
Doug Haines wrote:
> Read 1421 about the chinese treasure fleets circling the globe and
> charting Australia, America, Antarctica, Greenland and sailing North of
> Russia from greenland to Japan (apparently a very warm year that one).
> To thank for lots of things.
> Also changed mind about Rigs, only for cost and effort of building,
I read it too a while ago. However, I also heard a radio program about
six months after reading it that cast a lot of doubts on the entire
book, from underlying premise to simple "facts". The multiple experts
(was on ABC RN) seemed to be well qualified, articulate and accurate.
I'm sure there will be a lot online about it, but I've moved to treating
it more as a book of fiction than fact. Not bad fiction though :-)
A quick google found:
http://www.1421expo
and 4-5 others in the top 10 results for search "1421".
Rob