{"id":533,"date":"2010-02-11T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-02-11T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:00:11","slug":"an-interesting-and-puzzling-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting and Puzzling Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dellschau-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"dellschau\" title=\"dellschau\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"align left size-thumbnail wp-image-435\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/crenshaw.html\" target=\"_top\"><strong><em>The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club &#038; the Airships of the 1800s, A True Story<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Dennis Crenshaw with P.G. Navarro continues to get good press. Phil Barker reviewed the book for <em>Fortean Times<\/em> and said: &#8220;&#8230;a book packed with interest, coming at a junction of several fascinating areas: outsider art, early flight, coded texts, alternative technologies and even a touch of trippy steampunk. It includes a brief resume of early flight in America and elsewhere (mostly balloon-based), [and] the UFO-like &#8220;Great Airship Mystery&#8221; of 1896-7&#8230;&#8221; His final verdict on the book? An &#8220;interesting and puzzling tale of America&#8217;s early flyboys.&#8221; Elsewhere, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleyadvocate.com\/article.cfm?aid=11228\" target=\"_top\"><em>Valley Advocate<\/em><\/a>, James Heflin has penned an ode to the surprises one can pick up at yard sales, estate sales, and landfills (which is just how Dellschau&#8217;s now valuable notebooks were discovered) in his feature story on the book. Writes Heflin: &#8220;Crenshaw&#8217;s book on Dellschau is an authoritative source&#8230;a fascinating voyage of exploration that opened intriguing doors of possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club &#038; the Airships of the 1800s, A True Story by Dennis Crenshaw with P.G. Navarro continues to get good press. Phil Barker reviewed the book for Fortean Times and said: &#8220;&#8230;a book packed with interest, coming at a junction of several fascinating areas: outsider art, early flight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-secrets-of-dellschau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}