"Donati,.Sara.-.Into.The.Wilderness" - читать интересную книгу автора (Donati Sara)

Ellen Mandell for providing a wealth of material on eighteenth-century
medical practices, and for many encouraging words and useful
discussions.

In the Collectibles Forum, Michael Crowder, Chuck Huber, and Neil
Rothschild were helpful with details on late-eighteenth-century
currency and coins;

David Karraker for telling me that I could write all those years ago,
and for his faith in me regardless of such trivial matters as
differences in taste. If I could have fit his Ben and Janie into this
tale, I would have done it, just to see the look on his face;

My agent, Jill Grinberg, for her enthusiasm, energy, endless hard work,
and for those uplifting answering-machine messages;

At Bantam, Nita Taublib and Wendy McCurdy for loving this story and
treating it so well;

Wendy Fisher House for careful listening;

Pat Rosenmeyer for enthusiastic reading;

Mom Dressler for feeding me chocolate and sympathy;

Scott Spector for taking me to the movies;

My family for their patience and faith in me; Bill for his support in
the face of crises of all kinds; Elisabeth, for her first breath and
for every one she has ever taken since and for the billions yet to
come. I thank her especially for not expecting me to mend her socks;

Now there's only Emmy. Emmy Liston provided calm when I needed it,
enthusiasm when I was down, realism when I was off the ground,
mysticism when I was too firmly anchored, faith in me at times I could
spare myself not one shred. She gave me something I was missing in a
greater writing community with an aesthetic that made me
claustrophobic: permission to write this story. She is a writer's
writer, and she is my friend, and this one is for her.

Major Characters

RESIDENTS OF PARADISE

The Middletons:

Judge Alfred Middleton, landowner Elizabeth, his daughter Julian, his
son Curiosity Freeman, a freed slave, his housekeeper Galileo Freeman,
a freed slave, the manager of his farm and holdings, and Curiosity's
husband Daisy, Polly, and Almanzo Freeman, their grown children, in