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Wolf, Joan. Daughter of the Red Deer. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
RATHER ODD BOOKS
Andrews, William. Old Time Punishments. Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House Publishers, 1985.
Cohen, Daniel. The Encyclopedia of Monsters. New York: Dorset Press, a division of Marlboro Books Corporation, 1982.
Cooper, William M. An Illustrated History of The Rod. Ware, Herfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1988.
Earle, Alice Morse. Curious Punishments of By Gone Days. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 1995.
Medieval Punishment: Torture and Executions in Europe, 1100–1600, How It Was Done, Why It Was Done. Lifkin, Tx.: The Gutenberg Press, 1994.
Rossi, William A. The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe. Herfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1989.
Swain, John. The Pleasures of the Torture Chamber. New York: Dorset Press, division of Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1995.
MISCELLANEOUS
The New York Public Library Desk Reference Collection of the Most Frequently Sought Information. New York: The Stonesong Press, Inc.
Atkinson, R.J.C. Stonehenge New York: Penguin Books, 1990.
Boyne, William. A Manual of Roman Coins; From the Earliest Period of the Extinction of the Empire; with Rarity Guide & 22 Plates. Chicago: Ammon Press, 1968.
Gallatin, Albert. Syracusan Dekadrachms of the Euainetos Type. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930.
Grasse, Pierre P. ed. Lascaux en Périgord Noir: Environment, Art Parietal et Conservation. Périgueux: P Fanlac, 1982.
Hawking, Stephen W. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
Hawkins, Gerald S. et al. Stonehenge Decoded. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1965.
Macvey, John W. Time Travel. Chelsea, Mich.: Scarborough House/Publishers, 1990.
APPENDIX I
ERRATA
I shot an error in the air,
It fell to earth I knew not where,
Until some people wrote to tell
Me where on earth my error fell.
A few of them in rage profound
Berated me on my home ground.
While others of a kinder bent
Politely questioned my intent.
But most were fans who wrote to say
They loved my books, though by the way,
That whizzing error split their clout
And I’d be wise to cut it out.
(with thanks to the author,
Dr. Ellen Mandell, and apologies to
Robert Louis Stevenson)
Well, look—nobody’s perfect. Not me, not copy editors, not typesetters. Least of all, me. However, it’s my name on the front of the book. Some of the following corrections are simply typographical errors, some are not really errors but people think they are—and some really are mistakes. I doubt this list is comprehensive; it’s the nature of errors to hide and multiply, new ones emerging with each reading of a text. (I think they breed while the book is closed, hatching in the light of day every time you open the covers.)
Forthwith, corrections, explanations, and emendations—page references are to the U.S. paperback editions. My thanks to Elizabeth M. Phillips for her detailed comments, which were of great help.
OUTLANDER
Page 3: “1945”
Beginning date. Now, this is one of those errors that isn’t exactly an error, but then again… When we sold Outlander in the United States, it had a starting date of 1945 because when I looked briefly at a summary account of World War II (upon deciding that that’s where Claire came from), it gave 1945 as the official end of the war, and since World War II wasn’t the primary setting of the book (and since I wasn’t intending ever to show the thing to anybody anyway), I didn’t look deeply into its chronology. So, a year after selling the book to a U.S. publisher, we sold it in the U.K., whereupon I said (to the U.K. publisher), “For God’s sake, have a Scot read it before you publish it; I’ve never actually been there!”
Reay Tannahill, a Scot, a historian and a fine historical novelist herself, kindly read the manuscript and sent me a number of small notes and corrections, all of which I incorporated into the galley proofs of Outlander—with one exception.
Reay told me that 1946 would be much more accurate, in terms of the