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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Before all else, I thank my family for their support and patience in the years this book was in preparation. Jill Pearlman—partner, spouse, fellow traveler, and writer—has endured yet another of my spells of monomania with grace, good humor, and gentle resignation. I cannot ever thank her enough. And my boisterous young daughters, Rachel and Eve, helped remind me that there is more to life than scimitars and catapults. As always, my two brothers and my father have been encouraging, if bemused. My mother, whose final illness came in 2004, might have, I hope, enjoyed this book. Then again, her kindness and love were such that she would never have told me if she hadn't. I will always be grateful to my parents, Anne Conlon and Daniel O'Shea, for crossing their own sea of faith from Ireland to Canada in 1949.
This book was written in Providence, Rhode Island, and in a farmhouse near Perpignan, France. Research required some eccentric travel around the Mediterranean; thus I have had help in many places and from many people.
For his searingly effective editorial advice, I thank novelist Eli Gottlieb, an old friend from our New York days together and ever the deft prose surgeon. In matters writerly, Allen Kurzweil has also been a great help. Allen is one of several Providence area denizens past and present who have aided me in ways large and small. Among them: Ernesto Aparicio, Denis Baldwin-Beneich, Popanha Brandes, Anna Cousins, Jill Donnelly, Claude Goldstein, Vladimir Golstein, Paule Khoury, Barbara Ann Markel, Brendan McCaughey, Todd Mennillo, Elli Mylonas, Bruno Schneider, William Viall, and the staff at the Rockefeller Library at Brown University and at the Providence Athenaeum. In the Rousil-lon region of southern France, we were once again surrounded by warm Catalans, whose greeting of ça va, le bouq
uin? (Done with the book yet?) became a not-so-private joke. My thanks to neighbor Henri Fabresse for pulling us out of ditches and plowing the land for a vegetable garden, to Francis and Martine Peron for their unflagging interest, to Peter Turkie for the loan of exactly the right book, and to Suzanne Lowry for her enthusiastic support. But most of all, my gratitude goes to the Djurovic family of Thuir: Vladimir, Yovanka, and the late Roselyne, whose untimely disappearance still shocks. We miss Roselyne, our friend and complice, terribly.
For my foray to Poitiers, I thank my hosts Graziella Ibañez and Matthew von Piepenburg. In Spain, Bautista Martínez Ceprian helped enormously in the research, even when that meant pulling me over the brambles of Las Navas de Tolosa. For the Córdoba chapter, the advice of Peter Cole, poet and translator, was acutely useful. For Malta, I thank David Brussat for his informed heads-up and, in Valletta, Alberto Nocera, for sharing his encyclopedic knowledge of the island over a few drinks at the bar. For Palermo, the advice of Eduardo Fichera on his native city proved invaluable.
Istanbul became the center of my travels around the eastern Med, and here my cup runneth over. Ayda Manukyan, a musical Armenian who knows every nook and cranny of her hometown, squired me around Istanbul with expert ease. Scholar Feridun Özgümüs showed me the city's land walls, columnist Figen Batur its Bosporus night. Archaeologist Gül Pulhan led me to where I wanted to go in both eastern Anatolian and southern Syria, her unflappable irony in the face of my tenderfoot Orientalism a source of much laughter. She has been a great help and a good friend. Thanks also to Melek Taylan, Aydin Ugur, John Freely, John Ash, Niels Stoltenborg—and to Fatih, the little boy who knew where the mosque of Rumi was.
In eastern Anatolia, thanks are due to my driver, Abidin, and to Ali Ihsan, a representative of the Ministry of Culture in Malazgirt. In Aleppo, the staff at the Baron Hotel, where every guest seems, disconcertingly, to be a writer, was unfailingly kind. The affable Walid Malah drove me to Assassin hideouts of the Jebel Ansariye in Aziza, his lovingly maintained 1955 Studebaker Commander; driver Adnan Kadour used ingenuity in getting around checkpoints in navigating the Syrian approaches to the Golan. In Israel, Davide Silvera proved to be an exceptional dragoman, totally unfazed at the prospect of a client solely interested in twelfth-century Galilee.
Thanks too to my publishers and editors—Peter Carson, Andrew Franklin, George Gibson, Scott Mclntyre—for their encouragement and patience. I'm also indebted to agents Chuck Verrill and Liz Darhansoff. And a very big debt of gratitude to Profile's Kate Griffin, who with her family has done the improbable—made London feel like home to me. In Paris, Sandy and Elisabeth Whitelaw, along with Valerie Chassigneux, Cathy Nolan, Heidi Ellison, Scott Blair, Randy Koral, Ruth Marshall, Mitchell Feinberg, and Valli and Pierre Budestchu, have always been warm and welcoming to their prodigal friend. The staff at the Bibliothéque Nationale and the library of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris were unfailingly helpful as well. My thanks, too, to Mourad Wahba. And in New York, George Lange gave cheerfully of his talents to make me look quasi-presentable in a photograph.
All of these people, helpful in so many ways, are of course in no way responsible for the inaccuracies and infelicities that this book undoubtedly contains. They, alas, are my fault alone. Vertot, an eighteenth-century French historian of the Ottoman siege of Rhodes, turned away documents that arrived too late on his desk with the famously insouciant rejection Mon siege est fait (My siege is finished). As my sea is now finished, I hope that readers will be indulgent if I missed the boat a couple of times.
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
A historian, journalist, and translator, Stephen O'Shea is the author of Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I and The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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