" Whatever Frankopan's true motives, this is a form of revisionist history. His attitude is of an author who is making a necessary correction of the record, which is clever but not very convincing. This is an Islamist Apologia. Not overt propaganda but subtle by omission. The narration is extremely clear, despite many strange pronunciations as if a case of ESL. The book includes a concise history of the vast regions between the Levant and China, not usually discovered in casual historic exploration, with a peculiar focus upon THE ASIAN TRADE ROUTES. To be blunt, much of the narrative is a cover for banditry and Islamist terror in the region. However there are even worse critical omissions such almost no explication of the first historically documented Ethnic-Religious mass genocide, and subsequent enslavement and economic impoverishment of millions on the scale of Stalin/Mao which took place in India under the Islamic Mughals (early 16th to the mid-18th century). Three centuries of horro "
— William, 1/16/2020