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Title: Excellent book! (but is it true?)
Review: A great book! well written, fast faced, well researched (I like footnotes), authentic, believeable, cross-checked with other books, but, at the end of the day, since it is a derivative work based on a seaman's tale, there is a small chance (around 10% IMO, just guessing) that this tale is largely fiction, not unlike certain aspects of Marco Polo's tale. In fact, even the author says the narratives by the two surviving sailors is contradictory in places. But in no way should that detract from the story. Even if half of it is fiction the other half would still merit a book. Neither should it detract that certain sailors lived (but others did not). If anything, it adds to the mystery as to who lived and who did not. Further, the book is excellent in describing the lifestyle and morals of the desert nomads, who largely live the same way today.
