Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student is the 2014 novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. The first "Illusions" book was published in 1977 and was an international best-seller, telling the story of a pilot who encounters a messiah who has absconded from the "job" of being a messiah. ("Illusions" was the author's followup to 1970's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull".) The sequel is in author Richard Bach's voice, as his "imaginary" literary characters help him in his recovery from his real-life plane crash. After decades of flying without incident, author Richard
Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"". Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull Eric Monkman (born c. 1988) and Bobby Seagull are academics and television personalities based in the United Kingdom. They came to fame as a result of appearances on the 2016–17 season of the BBC Two quiz show "University Challenge". Monkman was captain of the Wolfson College, Cambridge team, and Seagull was captain of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge team. They met in the semi-final where Wolfson won, but were beaten by Balliol College, Oxford in the final. They presented the BBC Radio 4 programme "Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure", and wrote