The Empty Kingdom (23 page)

Elizabeth researching WWII aircraft for
Code Name Verity
at the Shuttleworth Collection in Biggleswade, England. (Courtesy of the Shuttleworth Collection.)

Elizabeth, Tim, and their children on vacation in the British Virgin Islands in 2006.

Elizabeth in full academic regalia for her commencement address at Harrisburg Academy in 2008.

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Copyright © 2008 by Elizabeth Gatland

“Mu’Allaqa of Tarafa,” from The Seven Odes, translated by A. J. Arberry (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1957). An online version of The Seven Odes is available at
www.muslimphilosophy.com/books/odes.pdf

Grateful thanks to Katherine Jarman and my dear friend Helen Sanders Gray, for their efforts in translating enough ancient Greek to allow me to compose the sonnet in “The Sealed Agreement” on Goewin’s behalf.

Map Illustrations by Elizabeth Wein

Cover design by Neil Heacox

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