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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 postwar conditions I described, since rationing, etc., was still the norm in Britain in 1945. However, the American publisher didn’t want to change the beginning date since this would require re-copyediting the entire manuscript to make sure all the dates were coherent, and publication was imminent. “Besides,” they added, “nobody in the States will know the difference.” (They were largely, if not entirely, correct in this supposition, by the way.)
However, in the interest of accuracy—and because it later caused another and more significant error in the chronology of Dragonfly in Amber—the beginning date should really be 1946, instead of 1945.
Page 6: Claire refers to Frank’s “great-great-great-great-grandfather,” while Jack Randall is elsewhere mentioned as Frank’s “six-times great-grandfather.” I would assume that Claire, having little or no interest (at this point) in the finer details of genealogy, is not bothering about precision.
Page 28/29: Frank and the Reverend announce to Claire their finding of “news” regarding Jack Randall, which Claire calculates—from the appearance of the papers on the desk, as dating from “around 1750.” If Jack Randall died in 1746,
he couldn’t have been “harassing the countryside” in 1750. And since he was newly arrived as commander at Ft. William when Jamie was flogged in October 1739, the date Claire gives should probably be 1740. On the other hand, Claire is no antiquarian and has no knowledge of Randall’s history—so I would myself think an eyeball estimate with a ten-year standard deviation is pretty good.
Page 62: “lobsterbacks”
This term was indeed used to describe English soldiers—but not in Scotland. It was in common use some years later, during the American Revolution, but probably was not current for the Scottish Highlands in 1743.
Page 105: The Selkirk Grace
The prayer young Hamish speaks is actually a well-known piece, called “The Selkirk Grace.” It is an authentic bit of Scottish culture; however, it was written by (or at least attributed to) Robert Burns—who unfortunately wasn’t born yet in 1743.
The inclusion of this prayer was something of an ironic accident; I originally came across it in a collection of multicultural children’s poetry, where it was titled simply “Scottish prayer” and attributed to our old friend Anonymous. I would likely have recognized it, nonetheless—save that I was assiduously avoiding reading the works of Robert Burns because I knew that he wasn’t extant in the time period I was dealing with—and I wanted to avoid accidentally using this material anachronistically. Ironic, as I say.
A year or so ago, I met with Dr. Sheila Brock, curator of the new Museum of Scotland. Hearing that she was about to embark on Cross Stitch, I warned her (in some alarm) that there were in fact a few errors here or there (for example, the substitution of the innocuous if silly “sock knife” for the Gaelic term sgian dhu, and the Selkirk Grace).
Dr. Brock laughed, and said, “Well, you know, the Selkirk Grace is only attributed to
Burns; there’s no actual proof he wrote it. I should think your best defense is to claim that Burns might have taken it from an existing bit of folk verse.” That seemed good advice to me, so I’m sticking with it.
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