<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/in-search-of-the-third-bird/" rel="attachment wp-att-6797"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6797" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/In-search-of-the-third-bird-PB-COVER-1024x1521.jpg" alt="" width="158" height="235" /></a>In the spirit of transparency, we'd like to share some of the peer reviews we received for our new title, <em>In Search of the Third Bird.</em></p>
While the reviewers were somewhat conflicted in their appraisals – and not exactly encouraging – we still felt that the collection was intriguing, and potentially important enough, to publish anyway. We hope you'll agree.

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<p style="padding-left: 200px;"><strong>Download the full PDF of peer reviews here:</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 200px;"><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Peer-Reviews-with-coversheet.pdf" rel="attachment wp-att-6818">IN SEARCH OF THE THIRD BIRD - Peer Reviews</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;"><em>"So what, exactly, ARE these nearly 800 heavily footnoted pages? That is very much the question. I’ll have a go at answering it here below...</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;">Is this a game?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;">It may be. Make of it what you will.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;">The authors are welcome to clarify their position on this thorny matter. But my job, here, is to write a peer review of a work of historical scholarship. And whatever IN SEARCH OF THE THIRD BIRD may be, it is not that, by the current constitution of the enterprise — despite the rather substantial amount of history that is in it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;">Is it, then, a work of fiction? That is a different question, and one you have not asked me to answer. It certainly has some fictions in it! I will leave it at that.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;">Let me briefly summarize my assessment here: while I had hoped to be able to give this work an easy and positive review (I know several of the authors/editors, and had every reason to expect a scholarly work of high standard) I must very definitely recommend AGAINST publication of the present work, which is, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, NOT a work of historical scholarship in any conventional sense..."</p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;"><em>Darrin M. McMahon</em>
<em>Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History</em>
<em>Dartmouth College</em>
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<p style="padding-left: 80px;"><strong>Download the full PDF of reviews here:</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;"><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Peer-Reviews-with-coversheet.pdf" rel="attachment wp-att-6818">IN SEARCH OF THE THIRD BIRD - Peer Reviews</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 80px;"><strong>Order a copy <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/in-search-of-the-third-bird/">here</a>.</strong></p>