Van der Aalsvoort goes to no particular pains to avoid the apocryphal; indeed, Leaves in the Wind is a veritable compendium of second-hand falsehoods gleaned from newspapers and magazines, and reflects well the sort of image Westerners had of Taiwan.
蘭伯特不以正確性為取材標準，甚至將偽書內容、報章雜誌的二手轉述都一網打盡，完整呈現西方人認識台灣的過程。