Fact and reason It must be said that with the broad range of materials that Menzies draws on and quotes from, the reader can easily be drawn into a maze of data, with reliable and unreliable information popping up at every turn, until Zheng He's voyage into the Atlantic becomes a kind of Treasure Island dressed up in a suit of historical fact.
科學推理 VS. 歷史證物不可諱言地，在孟西士旁徵博引下，讀者很容易走進資料叢林所構築的迷宮裡，可信的與不可信的資料，隨時如鬼魅出現，攫住讀者的想像，鄭和下西洋成為披著真實歷史外衣的《金銀島》歷險記。