Before dying on a planet of Delta Pavonis, old Michael Shaughnessy remembers:
Newgrange
a parish church
York Minster
Chartres Cathedral
the University of Salamanca
the portrait of the Empress Theodora at Ravenna
Michelangelo's Day of Judgment
the Parthenon
Egyptian tombs
Shwe Dagon
the Great Wall
the Forbidden City
Kyoto
Virginia hills known to Washington and Jefferson
Machu Picchu
We recognize some places from other Poul Anderson works.
Shaughnessy tells this to the winds of a planet where his wife was buried centuries before.
This character has given us a glimpse of Nansen's career before Envoy, an introduction to the Kith and now memories of the Earth that was.
The history continues.
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