Status Updates From They Flew: A History of the...

Well-written and Eire has fun with the challenge of the subject of the book.

"Like a traveler exploring some distant country, the wonders of which have hitherto been known only through reports and rumors of a vague or distorted character, so for four years I have been occupied in pushing an enquiry into a territory of natural knowledge which offers almost virgin soil to a scientific man."

- William Crookes

Fascinating central question and treated well so far. This is what good history writing that “advances the field” looks like.

"He made his punishing diet even worse by eating vegetables on Fridays that were so foul that a fellow friar who dared to sample them remained nauseous for several days." Man's wildin'

"He made his punishing diet even worse by eating vegetables on Fridays that were so foul that a fellow friar who dared to sample them remained nauseous for several days." Mans wildin'