The lost empire of Atlantis

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1. saalweachterMar 2024
   So apropos of this pop history author, my "oh shit, being compelling and interesting doesn't mean it's correct" anecdote comes courtesy of another book that was popular around the same time as Guns, Germs and Steel, 1421: The Year China Discovered The New World.

   I read it, found it all very plausible and interesting.

   I read Gavin Menzies next book, 1434, found it equally interesting and compelling.

   Then I read his third book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, and found it just as plausible as his first book.

   Except the prior plausibility in my head of a Minoan civilization maintaining global trade was way, way lower, and so I didn't just accept it as uncritically as I had the first two books, and that made me realize how unskeptically I had been reading the first two books, and other books in the genre.

   It was a more enjoyable life lesson than most, all things considered.

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2. BeijingerMar 2024
   "I read Gavin Menzies next book, 1434, found it equally interesting and compelling."

   As a trained STEM Scientist, I found this book utterly nonsense and non-scientific.

   "Then I read his third book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, and found it just as plausible as his first book."

   For me this is not very promising. "As plausible as his first book"

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3. saalweachterNov 2019
   My introduction to this were the excellent books 1421, 1434, and of course, the author's third book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, which I found every bit as convincing as the first two and really drove home how credulous I'd been when reading them.
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4. saalweachterJan 2016
   I had a similar experience reading Gavin Menzies' 1421 / 1434 / The Lost Empire of Atlantis.
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