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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My thanks, especially on this occasion, to my wife, Jill, for her editing of the manuscript, and for bullying and cajoling me through the writing process! Thanks, too, to T. R. Jones, for acting as my technical adviser.

Acknowledgement must also be made to Faber & Faber Ltd for permission to quote from Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes.

The quotation from Fire and Ice by Robert Frost is reproduced by kind permission of Jonathan Cape and Holt, Rinehart & Winston, on behalf of the estate of Robert Frost, and comes from the collection Poetry edited by Edward Connery Latham.