"Nancy Holder - Highlander - Measure of a Man" - читать интересную книгу автора (Holder Nancy)

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Author's Notes and acknowledgments

The first part of Measure of a Man was inspired by Ashley MeConnell's
HIGHLANDER novel, Scimitar. My thanks to her and to authors Jason
Henderson and Jennifer Roberson, and to all those who created and have
subsequently enriched the universe of Duncan MacLeod and his kinsman,
ConnOL

Very special thanks to my researcher and friend, Hodge Crabtree, Jr. Any
errors in this book are mine. Mythenos is a fictional colony, although
the Venetians were indeed hard put to maintain their Greek colonies, and
Crete was always a thorn in their sides. The six-month celebration of
Carnival developed gradually and reached its culmination in the
eighteenth century. In 1655, Venice had a terrible reputation for its
torture chambers, but historians tend to agree that the Republic was
relatively mild in this -regard. Also, the Inquisition tended to slap
the hands of accused witches rather than execute them.

I used the Thomas Cleary translation of The Art of War and the John
Stevens translation of The Art of Peace. The unattributed quote about
samurai in the epilogue is from The Art of Peace. There are dozens of
good books about chess; one is The World& Great Chess Games, edited by
Ruben Fine. There is absolutely no historical evidence to support my
fictional explanation for Machiavelli's "will to power."

Without Maryelizabeth Hart, this book would not have been written. My
deep thanks to her for her generosity and friendship. I would certainly
be the poorer without them.

I'm very grateful to executive producer Bill Panzer and to staff