Whichever delivery is used [for a missile] should be gauged to the athleticism and nimbility of the target.

While the pages, both printed and pictorial, are scrupulously factful, the authors write with such charm that the reader is able to visualise something of the social life of the period […]

information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

One species in particular, the fissi (Sarotherodon caroli), is close to the unga.