http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html In researching Crossed, I decided to visit, in order, the four major sites where the crusaders set up camp: Venice, Zara (now Zadar), Corfu and Constantinople (now Istanbul). Out of hundreds of photos, I’ve tried to cull a few most directly related to the story, or the experience of my writing it. (Elsewhere on the website is a link to the journal of my travels.) Wish I had room to include at least three dozen more... http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#0 bc8374e3-f3af-49db-b084-ade9a2f123b1 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1313.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1313.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The porch roof of <br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption">San Marco, in the Byzantine style</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#1 6d9325c8-1adb-4a40-98b6-8cef4b86d94c http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1256.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1256.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Hard to believe, but I found a canal in Venice.</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#2 660549a5-953c-4aba-a9c0-75658cadb066 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1258.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1258.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">And then I found another canal!</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#3 177b1d3a-739a-42d3-ab93-df1874586ff8 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1341.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1341.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The famous front of San Marco; you can just make out the Four Horses, stolen from Byzantium</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#4 26a41200-576d-421d-a73d-a567bee5edbb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1327.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1327.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Easily the most-photographed vista in Venice</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#5 3bd7d277-2d17-462e-ba6e-de0061efaf01 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1331.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1331.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Dawn comes to St. Sophia</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#6 1ecc40a1-ee39-449c-8046-0d71572b358a http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1412.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1412.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Ca&#x2019; Barzizza, the oldest extant palazzo, site of a significant kidnapping/rescue in CROSSED</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#7 353953bc-10e4-4a56-a62e-045afc947e1d http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1319.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1319.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Campanile, recently finished at the time of the Fourth Crusade</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#8 895413e0-bdb8-4280-8985-24baa275f201 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1324.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1324.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Gateway to Venice</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#9 d7601551-a843-42a2-b654-5f3d7239c75a http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1477.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1477.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Torcello, a more picturesque island than the one where the crusaders were stuck</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#10 2240558b-34a9-46f1-ab86-db35ff845c44 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1537.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1537.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The lagoon between Venice proper and San Niccolo</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#11 842f475f-0f87-4fd4-bd86-313ef8bc08c3 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1642.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1642.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Zara as she is today (Zadar)</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#12 bb2ff390-e0ea-4ce9-a834-fafbf339a6e0 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1592.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1592.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Tourist Rule #935: you are required to take photos of all picturesque fishing nets on Adriatic islands</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#13 26dc3981-49b9-4b45-9ca5-2e03e59a7062 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1689.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1689.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">An 8th-century church in Zara (Zadar), still standing</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#14 46d9531a-ae53-486b-ae17-64649a1ef585 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1738.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1738.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Dalmatian Coast</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#15 80d17a9d-9379-4fcf-ab48-84fec0c635ac http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1894.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1894.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Corfu</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#16 acad1219-4fc0-468f-b602-3455f0e85b6f http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1902.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1902.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This olive tree on Corfu appears in an emotional reunion scene in the novel</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#17 cb13bcd1-8773-4ab2-b27f-94dcb16483c8 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1938.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1938.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Galata Tower... boo, hiss</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#18 93bd1be6-492b-4808-8771-015392a0cdc4 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1963.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1963.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The remains of the&#xA0; northern land-walls of Istanbul</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#19 4d52901a-c40a-46cf-bae8-193f9c28f731 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1978.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN1978.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The ruins of Blachernae Palace, in what is now a very poor part of the city</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#20 96f8a381-d143-44dd-8197-839846c6b676 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2378.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2378.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Hagia Sophia, The-Church-of-Holy-Wisdom, as seen over neighboring rooftops</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#21 5dc13fe3-b1a8-4f9b-afe6-a6740d491a90 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2104.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2104.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Cistern</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#22 bb050f4b-6704-4bf0-980b-6ff6271730ef http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2125.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2125.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Aqueduct</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#23 661fb756-d9c6-4936-b862-5be9a685ead3 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2149.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2149.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Jess Taylor, fellow-traveler in Corfu and Istanbul, and I atop&#xA0; (yes, atop) the aqueduct</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#24 d8e17a8f-e2c1-4442-9580-3db50be44284 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2151.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2151.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">After an encounter with a (toy?) machine gun, I buy a head-scarf for wandering the non-tourist sections of the city</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#25 de0e41f5-f121-43c5-a964-bcd1aa3fdd91 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2250.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2250.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Bosporos at sunset</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#26 3d3ba6ca-bc03-4d83-a28d-46d53f7b22c7 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2376.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2376.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The remains of St. John of Studious, which once housed the holy relic called...</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#27 590a9f45-a5ac-4cac-bc99-0bd80da432ea http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2335.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2335.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">...the head of John the Baptist.This head lives in Topkapi Palace. (There are also some in Europe, and one in Damascus.)</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#28 b5bfbc3e-2981-4d56-b7fa-8963e55c963a http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2493.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2493.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">I used 7 different maps to create a composite reference graphic of Constantinople in 1203.</p></div></div> http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed.html#29 b8c024e3-005a-472a-ad5c-2376bd86f1a7 http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2497.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/nicolegalland/Site/Photos%3A_Crossed_files/Media/DSCN2497.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Crumplers (of Fool&#x2019;s Tale fame) were my hosts for a month of re-writes; here&#x2019;s what I did to their dining room table.</p></div></div>