Racing Through Paradise [antikvár]

Acknowledgments I am primarily indebted to my son Christopher, for reasons that will become evident to the reader. Christopher Little did the fine photographs. Those on the first page of the second color signature are by Claudio Veliz, Jr. To my other companions: I am grateful for their company, for their journals, and for their friendship. Several friends read and commented on the manuscript, including Charles Wallen, Jr., Professor Thomas Wendel, Richard Clur-man, Reginald Stoops, Priscilla Buckley, Reid Buckley, Lois Wallace, and Jeff Cohen. I owe special thanks to the distinguished editor and translator Sophie Wilkins, for yet another set of shrewd and original recommendations. But above all, I am obliged to Samuel S. Vaughan. This is the tenth volume by me that he has edited, and I would not know what to do without his sage, generous, and acute counsel. I thank Dorothy McCartney for her invaluable help in research, Tony Savage for his patience and skill in typing three drafts, and Frances Bronson, to whom I dedicate this volume with great affection, for what I have come to call {mot juste!) her "editorial coordination." My thanks to Joseph Isola for his fine copyreading—twenty-three