Acknowledgements

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    Whi?le some of the characters ear in this book are based on historical figures, and while many of the areas described—such as the Gilf Kebir and its surroundi—exist, and were explored in the , it is important to stress that this story is a fi and that the portraits of the characters ear in it are fial, as are some of the events and journeys.

    I would like to thank the Royal Geographical Society, London, for allowio read archival material and to glean from their Geographical Journals the world of explorers and their journeys—ofteifully recorded by their writers. I have quoted a passage from Hassanein Bey’s article “Through Kufra to Darfur” (), describing sandstorms, and I have drawn from him and other exp<s></s>lorers to evoke the desert of the

    I would like to aowledge information drawn from Dr.

    Richard A. Hermann’s “Historical Problems of the Libya” () and R. A. Bagnold’s review of Almasy’s monograph on his explorations in the desert.

    Many books were important to me in my research. Unexploded Bomb by Major A. B. Hartley was especially useful in re-creating the stru of bombs and in describing the British bomb disposal units at the start of World War II. I have quoted directly from his book (the italicized lines in the “In Situ” se) and have based some of Kirpal Singh s methods of defusing on<bdi>.</bdi> actual teiques that Hartley records. Information found iient’s notebook oure of certain winds is drawn from Lyall Watson’s wonderful book Heavens Breath, direct quotes appearing in quotation marks. The se from the daules-Gyges story in Herodotus’s Histories is from the  translation by G. C. Mc-Cauley (Macmillan). Other quotations from Herodotus use the David Greranslation (Uy of Chicago Press). The line in itali page  is by Christopher Smart; the lines in italics<bdi>.</bdi> on page  are from John Milton s Paradise Lost; the line Hana remembers on page  is by Anne Wilkinson. I would also like to aowledge Alan Moorehead’s The Villa Diana, which discusses the life of Poliziano in Tusy. Other important books were Mary McCarthy’s The Stones of Florence; Leonard Mosley’s The Cat and the Mice; G. W. L. Nicholson’s The adians in Italy -? and ada’s Nursing Sisters; The Marshall dish Encyclopaedia of World War H; F. Yeats-Brown’s Martial India; and three other books on the Ind<tt></tt>ian military: The Tiger Strikes and The Tiger Kills, published in  by the Directorate of Public Relations, New Delhi, India, and A Roll of Honor.

    Thanks to the English department at Glendon College, York Uy, the Villa Serbelloni, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library.

    I would like to thank the following for their generous help: Elisabeth Dennys, who let me read her letters written from Egypt during the war; Sister Margaret at the Villa San Girolamo; Michael Williamson at the National Library of ada, Ottawa; Anna Jardine; Rodney Dennys; Linda Spalding; Ellen Levine. And Lally Marwah, Douglas LePan, David Young and Donya Peroff.

    Finally a special thanks to Ellen Seligman, Liz Calder and Sona.

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