Review of the week: McGhee on The Island of 7 Cities

Picked up the July/August edition of Canadian Geographic. Lots of good stuff in Canadian Geographic, as always, but I was entranced by Robert McGhee's eloquent review of Paul Chiasson's The Island of Seven Cities, a charming and loony book about Chiasson's notion that 14th century Chinese explorers settled on Cape Breton Island. Particularly if you read in the Globe & Mail or elsewhere about Chiasson's "discovery," you should read McGhee for a reality check. On the CanGeo site, you can follow the links to the review text.