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Subject: chinese discoverers of America in 1/5/03 NYT Mag
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:13:02 -0500
From: "ahudson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fyi, a fun read in the Sunday New York Times Magazine on the author of
the
new book about Chinese discoverers of America...characterized in the
piece
as an "obsessed amateur" who looks at the mountains of Terra Incognita
on
the Waldseemuller map and sees both San Francisco and Los Angeles...

Sorry, but my tired old brain just read the thing this a.m., and I have
already forgotten the man's name and the name of his book. The brain can
only handle so much, um, data. And, by the way, that's ok, no need to
remind me. The mag is already in the bottom of the litter box.

Alice


Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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