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In the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, part of the story takes place around the China galleons.

Definitely worth a read if you find this sort of thing exciting.

Yeah, that was a long but interesting read. He has a long discussion about the secret of what latitude to use to cross Eastward. I never understood that loop so well until I saw the pics and diagrams in this story.

edit - fixed some of my endless typos

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