<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="249" height="370" /></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>

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.

<strong>Download the full PDF of peer reviews here:</strong>

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<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>

Is this a game?

It may be. Make of it what you will.

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.

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.

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..."

<em>Darrin M. McMahon</em>
<em>Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History</em>
<em>Dartmouth College</em>
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<strong>Download the full PDF of reviews here:</strong>

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<strong>Order a copy <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/in-search-of-the-third-bird/">here</a>.</strong>