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Originally Posted by crich70
... I think that's one of the pros of the book. It points out that what we think of as being the way things are today (i.e. political fighting) is actually a very old thing indeed.
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Agreed.
Personally, I very much enjoyed the book, when I read it ages ago just after it was first published. I though it well written, with a good balance between the technical/scientific/navigational issue and the political (read: elite "scientists" vs. working class genius) issues.