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for those with ears to hear, listen!
Disregard the flippant quote from the 1 star reviewer, who obviously is emotionally biased since they failed to even read it and instead found something canned on the web to post there to discredit it. Interestingly that negative reviewer has only reviewed two books ever, the one above rated negatively and another templar book rated entirely positively because it is called more "empirical". Well, on that criteria, the negative reviewer should love this book, if they ever read it instead of simply copy/paste something from the web ironically without any of the cherished evidence itself to back it up! Who's irrational, eh?

Anyway, I will let the authors of the book speak for themselves in this quote as a rebuttal to the ignorant reviewer above. At least the authors read their own book, relying on a great deal of emprical evidence, unlike the hotheaded negative reviewer:

The quote is:

"In various books, claims have been made for the date, itenarary, and duration of the voyages for which we can find no justification whatsoever. We have been careful to use the relevant passages from the Zeno Narrative where they are in accord with the geography, in conjunction with Henry's undoubted knowledge of previous Viking voyages to Vinland. We can also follow the trail of this considerable exploration through archaeological artifacts, which those interested can still view and assess for themselves. While we have made every attempt to keep speculation to a minimum, we consider the hypotheses we do put forward reasonable in the light of the evidence and dispassionate logic. We accept a priori that there is no way that even this rational methodology will convince those who hold the entrenched position that there was no European contact with America prior to 1492. [p.3]

. . .

A Rising Tide of Acceptance

Despite its long and troubled history, the authenticity of the Zeno Narrative is now well established and has been accepted by academics such as Hapgood and Hobbs, the American historian Ridpath, the Albany Herald of Scotland, the late Sir Ian Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Dr. Barbara Crawford, the chief archivist, Geltling, of Denmark, the Swedish archaeologist Rausing, the Danish scholar Aage Russell, Arlington Mallery, Johann Reinhold Forester, the Tudor naval historian Richard Hakluyt, the secretary to the State of Venice, Ramusio, Professor Taylor of London University, the Venetian historian Ruscelli, R.H. Major of the Royal Geographic Society, the American historian John Fiske, the British historian Andrew Sinclair, and, of course, the persistence student of pre-Columbian American exploration, Frederick Pohl.

The Zeno map, despite the fact that it was made 150 years after the event and drawn from information supplied by the Narrative, has now also been authenticated as an accurate chart of the voyage. The importance of the work done by Captain Arlington Mallery and Charles Hapgood in establishing a valid rationale for the seeming disappearance of the "Fly Away Island" of Icaria has defused many earlier criticisms, and the work of Paul-Emile Victor in restoring the Zeno map to its original reputation for authenticity has been vital.

The historical reality of the Zeno/St. Clair expedition to the New world does not simply depend upon the validity of the Zeno map and narrative, however. We also have the evidence of the Westford Knight in Massachusetts, the Newport Tower in Rhode Island, the carvings in Rosslyn Chapel, and the offical commemoration of the voyage on a plague at the Zeno Pallazo in Venice. . . . [p. 195]

So, understand all this evidence in this great textbook overview of the issues. Get this historical update and to open your minds to evidence--the only way to learn and to avoid the haughtiness of ignorance.