The Years of Rice and Salt (83 page)

THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT
A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam hardcover edition published March 2002
Bantam mass market edition / June 2003

Published by
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New York, New York

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Copyright © 2002 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Maps © 2002 by Jeffrey L. Ward Inc.

The Sanskrit poems are adapted from
Sanskrit Love Poetry
, translated by W. S. Mervin and J. M. Masson. The indented paragraphs that are in BOOK 9, Chapter 11 are adapted from essays by the Mauritanian Zainaba and by the Egyptian Amina Said, reprinted in
Opening the Gates,
edited by Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001043492
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