by Val Ross
18: Access Denied
One of the best books on Alan Turing and his work is Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges (Burnett Books/Hutchison, 1983). And of course the classic is The Code Book, by Singh. A History of Modern Computing, by Paul Ceruzzi (MIT Press, 2003) concentrates on the American developments after World War II. A good book on how the government of China attempts to block the Internet is You’ve Got Dissent! Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijings Counter-Strategies, by Michael Chase and James Mulvenon (RAND, 2002). And I am grateful to Professor Wesley Wark of the University of Toronto, though any errors in my explanation of cryptanalysis are mine, not his.
Picture Notes
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vi: Thomas Rowlandson illustration for “The Bookseller” in William Combe, Doctor Syntax, His Three Tours in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, of a Wife. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1868).
ix: Thomas Rowlandson illustration for “The Doctor’s Dream” in William Combe, Doctor Syntax, His Three Tours in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, of a Wife. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1868).
2: The Sybil of Cumae painting by Domenico Zampieri, photograph by Erich Lessing, ART214635, Art Resource, NY.
5: Limestone Disk of Enhaduanna (En-hedu-anna), University of Pennsylvania Museum (image # 139330).
11: Sir Arthur Evans photograph by Col. Raymond ffennell, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
14: Michael Ventris photograph by Tom Blau, Camera Press London.
19: Colossal head of Emperor Nero, Staatliche Antikensammlung, Munich, Germany, ART 19098 7, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY.
31: Entrance to the Kasuga Shrine at Nara and Group of Consecrated Maidens, image # 1253785, Asian and Middle Eastern Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundations.
35: The Tale of Genji woodcut by seventeenth-century artist Yamamoto Shunsho.
41: The Caliph, al Musta’sim, brought before Hulagu Khan. A miniature-Permission British Library, Shelfmark Or. 2780, f.89v.
46: Portrait of Johannes Gutenberg by Andre Thevet, 1584.
52: Wood engraving by Abraham von Werdt, 1676.
57: The Tyndale New Testament, 1534. F1827 The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
61: Tyndale execution from Foxes Book of Martyrs, F2548 The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
63: Mary Queen of Scots. Frontispiece, Agnes Strickland (Ed.), Letters of Mary Queen of Scots (London: Henry Colburn, 1843).
65: Walsingham. Illustration, Arthur D. Innes, Ten Tudor Statesmen (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906).
69: “The Enchanter Merlin.” Howard Pyle (author and illustrator), The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (London: George Newnes Limited, 1903). The Osborne Collection, Toronto Public Library.
71: Title page, Index Librorum Prohibitorum. F2546 The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
74: Francis Stephen Cary, portrait of Mary Lamb. NPG 1019 National Portrait Gallery, London.
77: Title page, Thomas Bowdler, The Family Shakspeare. F2549 The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
82: Portrait of Louis Braille, ART 187603, Snark / Art Resource, NY.
92: Douglass. Frontispiece, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and M. Freedom (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855).
95: Joseph Jenner Merrett, “The Warrior Chieftans of New Zealand. Harriet, Heke’s wife; Heke; Kawiti.” C-010-013 Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.
97: Marcus King, “The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Feb 6, 1840.” C. 033-007 Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.
100: John Alexander Gilfillan, “Hone Heke,” A’114-003 Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.
102: Peter Hawkins (text) and Michael Dixon (illustrations), The Halifax Explosion (Toronto: True North Comics, 1997). By permission of McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
108: Photograph of Fredric Wertham by Gordon Parks, New York World Telegram (April 1954). LC-USZ62-135434 Library of Congress. 113 and 117: Photographs of schoolgirls in Afghanistan courtesy of Sally Armstrong.
121: “Enigma,” Negative number MH2 7178, by permission of The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London.
124: Photograph of Alan Turing by Elliott & Fry. NPG X82217 National Portrait Gallery, London.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank the friends who read my manuscript and gave helpful suggestions, particularly Maria Kasstan and Ella Gladstone Martin, Pearce J. Carefoote, at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, was an eagle-eyed reader for accuracy and style who assisted in our visuals research. He and others – Professor Wesley Wark of the U. of T Munk Centre; Giselle Byrnes of Victoria University in Wellington, Australia; Darleen Bogart at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind; Aris Babikian (the Ontario vice-president of the Armenian National Committee); Professor Ed Safarian; and author Sally Armstrong – saved me from many inadvertent errors. I’d also like to thank friend and fellow walker Mary Janigan, who first told me the story of Lucan, and who, along with her husband, Tom Kierans, has been so generous with books and ideas. Thanks, too, to John Fraser and Massey College. Leslie McGrath, at the Toronto Public Library’s Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, went out of her way to be helpful in hunting down illustration possibilities. Sakura Handa read the chapters on Shotoku and Murasaki; I will never forget her notes, criticism, and gracious encouragement. And finally, I’d like to thank my talented editor, Gena K. Gorrell, and my visuals editor, Jonathan Webb.
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