enclose me, still.
And to Marie Mackenzie for making me pinkie swear, a lot.
While this is not a historical novel, much of what goes on in this book is based on what we know, or what we think we know, about Christopher Columbus.
Books and academic papers on Christopher Columbus, or with references to Columbus, that I read over the past five years and that may have influenced this novel include The Mysterious History of Columbus: An Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy, by John Noble Wilford; A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, by William Manchester; and “The Hospital of Innocents: Humane Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Spain, 1409-1512,” by Emilio J. Dominguez, in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. I also was probably influenced, to a small extent, by watching Ridley Scott’s movie 1492: Conquest of Paradise. References to saints all came from www.holyspiritinteractive.net.
I owe a debt of gratitude to
Thomas Trofimuk
