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Chapter 1 (people of the Book Excerpt)

I might as well say, right from the jump: it wasn't my usual kind of job.

I like to work alone, in my own clean, silent, well-lit laboratory, where the climate is controlled and everything I need is right at hand. It's true that I have developed a reputation as someone who can work effectively out of the lab, when I have to, when the museums don't want to pay the travel insurance on a piece, or when private collectors don't want anyone to know exactly what it is that they own. It's also true that I've flown halfway around the world, to do an interesting job. But never to a place like this: the boardroom of a bank in the middle of a city where they just stopped shooting at each other five minutes ago.

For one thing, there are no guards hovering over me at my lab at home. I mean, the museum has a few quiet security professionals cruising around, but none of them would ever dream of intruding on my work space. Not like the crew here. Six of them. Two were bank security guards, two were Bosnian police, here to keep an eye on the bank security, and the other two were United Nations peacekeepers, here to keep an eye on the Bosnian police. All having loud conversations in Bosnian or Danish over their crackly radio handsets. As if that wasn't enough of a crowd, there was also the official UN observer, Hamish Sajjan. My first Scottish Sikh, very dapper in Harris tweed and an indigo turban. Only in the UN. I'd had to ask him to point out to the Bosnians that smoking wasn't going to be happening in a room that would shortly contain a fifteenth-century manuscript. Since then, they'd been even more fidgety.

I was starting to get fidgety myself. We'd been waiting for almost two hours. I'd filled the time as best I could. The guards had helped me reposition the big conference table nearer to the window, to take advantage of the light. I'd assembled the stereo microscope and laid out my tools: documentation cameras, probes, and scalpels. The beaker of gelatin was softening on its warming pad, and the wheat paste, linen threads, gold leaf were laid out ready, along with some glassine envelopes in case I was lucky enough to find any debris in the binding -- it's amazing what you can learn about a book by studying the chemistry of a bread crumb. There were samples of various calfskins, rolls of handmade papers in different tones and textures, and foam forms positioned in a cradle, ready to receive the book. If they ever brought the book.

"Any idea how much longer we're going to have to wait?" I asked Sajjan. He shrugged.

"I think there is a delay with the representative from the National Museum. Since the book is the property of the museum, the bank cannot remove it from the vault unless he is present."

Restless, I walked to the windows. We were on the top floor of the bank, an Austro-Hungarian wedding cake of a building whose stuccoed facade was speckled with mortar pockmarks just like every other structure in the city. When I put my hand on the glass, the cold seeped through. It was supposed to be spring; down in the small garden by the bank's entrance, the crocuses were blooming. But it had snowed earlier that morning, and the bowl of each small flower brimmed with a foam of snowflakes, like tiny cups of cappuccino. At least the snow made the light in the room even and bright. Perfect working light, if only I could get to work.

Simply to be doing something, I unrolled some of my papers -- French-milled linen. I ran a metal ruler over each sheet, working it flat. The sound of the metal edge traveling across the large sheet was like the sound of the surf I can hear from my flat at home in Sydney.I noticed that my hands were shaking. Not a good thing in my line of work.

My hands are not what you'd call one of my better features. Chapped, wattled across the back, they don't look like they belong on my wrists, which I am happy to report are slender and smooth like the rest of me. Charwoman's hands, my mother called them, the last time we argued. After that, when I had to meet her at the Cosmopolitan for coffee -- brief, correct, the pair of us brittle as icicles -- I wore a pair of gloves from the Salvos as a sort of piss-take. Of course, the Cosmopolitan is probably the only place in Sydney where someone might miss the irony in that gesture. My mother did. She said something about getting me a hat to match.

In the bright snow light, my hands looked even worse than usual, all ruddy and peeling from scouring the fat off cow gut with a pumice stone. When you live in Sydney, it's not the simplest thing in the world to get a meter of calf 's intestine. Ever since they moved the abattoir out of Homebush and started to spruce the place up for the 2000 Olympics, you have to drive, basically, to woop woop, and then when you finally get there, there's so much security in place because of the animal libbers you can barely get in the gate. It's not that I blame them for thinking I was a bit sketchy. It's hard to grasp right off the bat why someone might need a meter of calf 's appendix. But if you are going to work with five-hundred-year-old materials, you have to know how they were made five hundred years ago. That's what my teacher, Werner Heinrich, believed. He said you could read about grinding pigments and mixing gesso all you like, but the only way to understand is to actually do it. If I wanted to know what words like cutch and schoder really described, I had to make gold leaf myself: beat it and fold it and beat it again, on something it won't stick to, like the soft ground of scoured calf intestine. Eventually, you'll have a little packet of leaves each less than a thousandth of a millimeter thick. And you'll also have horrible-looking hands.

I made a fist, trying to smooth out the old-lady wattle skin. Also to see if I could stop the trembling. I'd been nervous ever since I changed planes in Vienna the day before. I travel a lot; you basically have to, if you live in Australia and want a piece of the most interesting projects in my field, which is the conservation of medieval manuscripts. But I don't generally go to places that are datelines in war correspondents' dispatches. I know there are people who go in for that sort of thing and write great books about it, and I suppose they have some kind of "It can't happen to me" optimism that makes it possible for them. Me, I'm a complete pessimist. If there's a sniper somewhere in the country I'm visiting, I fully expect to be the one in his crosshairs.

Even before the plane landed, you could see the war. As we broke through the gray swag of cloud that seems to be the permanent condition of the European sky, the little russet-tiled houses hugging the Adriatic looked familiar at first, just like the view I'm used to, down over the red rooftops of Sydney to the deep blue arc of Bondi Beach. But in this view, half the houses weren't there anymore. They were just jagged bits of masonry, sticking up in ragged rows like rotting teeth.

There was turbulence as we went over the mountains. I couldn't bring myself to look as we crossed into Bosnia so I pulled down the window shade. The young bloke next to me -- aid worker, I guessed, from the Cambodian scarf and the gaunt malarial look of him -- obviously wanted to look out, but I ignored his body language and tried to distract him with a question.

"So, what brings you here?"

"Mine clearance."

I was tempted to say something really borderline like, "Business booming?" but managed, uncharacteristically, to restrain myself. And then we landed, and he was up, with every single other person in the plane, jostling in the aisle, ferreting around in the overhead bins. He shouldered an immense rucksack and then proceeded to almost break the nose of the man crowding the aisle behind him. The lethal backpacker ninety-degree turn. You see it on the bus at Bondi all the time.

The cabin door finally opened, and the passengers oozed forward as if they were glued together. I was the only one still seated. I felt as if I'd swallowed a stone that was pinning me to my spot.

"Dr. Heath?" The flight attendant was hovering in the emptied aisle.

I was about to say, "No, that's my mother," when I realized she meant me. In Australia only prats flaunt their PhDs. I certainly hadn't checked in as anything other than Ms.
"Your United Nations escort is waiting on the tarmac." That explained it. I'd already noticed, in the run-up to accepting this gig, that the UN liked to give everyone the fl ashiest possible handle.

"Escort?" I repeated stupidly. "Tarmac?" They'd said I'd be met, but I thought that meant a bored taxi driver holding a sign with my name misspelled. The flight attendant gave me one of those big, perfect, German smiles. She leaned across me and flung up the drawn shade. I looked out. Three huge, amor-plated, tinted-window vans, the kind they drive the American president around in, stood idling by the plane's wingtip. What should have been a reassuring sight only made the stone in my gut a ton heavier. Beyond them, in long grass posted with mine-warning signs in various languages, I could see the rusting hulk of a huge cargo plane that must have missed the runway during some earlier unpleasantness. I looked back at Fräulein Smiley-Face.

"I thought the cease fire was being observed," I said.

"It is," she said brightly. "Most days. Do you need any assistance with your hand luggage?"

I shook my head, and bent to tug out the heavy case wedged tightly under the seat in front of me. Generally, airlines don't like collections of sharp metal things on board, but the Germans are great respecters of trades, and the check-in clerk understood when I explained how I hate to check my tools in case they end up touring Europe without me while I sit on my rear end unable to do my work.
I love my work. That's the thing. That's why, despite being a world-class coward, I agreed to take this job. To be honest, it never occurred to me not to take it. You don't say no to the chance to work on one of the rarest and most mysterious volumes in the world.

Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from PEOPLE OF THE BOOK Copyright © Geraldine Brooks, 2008

The above is an excerpt from the book People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Published by Penguin Books;  December 2008;$15.00US/$16.50CAN; 978-0-14-311500-7
Copyright © 2008 Geraldine Brooks

Author Bio
Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously. Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's Vineyard with her husband Tony Horwitz, their son Nathaniel, and three dogs.

About the Author

www.geraldinebrooks.com

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AmScope 7X-90X Binocular Stereo Microscope on Ball Bearing Boom Stand $549.98 This is a binocular 7X-90X zoom stereo microscope on a versatile ball-bearing boom stand, giving crystal clear sharp images. It comes with a binocular head with 30mm super widefield, high-eyepoint WF10X/20 eyepieces and a ball-bearing double-arm boom stand. The ball-bearing design allows you to move the microscope head forward and back so easily that you can have it done by the touch of a finger. This microscope offers high resolution, super widefield of view, large magnifying zoom range and long working distance. It is an ideal instrument for engravers, gemologists, circuit board inspectors and anyone in semiconductor and/or electronics industry. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It comes brand new in its factory sealed boxes. Its retail value is $2,200. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-90X Trinocular Stereo Microscope on Ball Bearing Boom Stand $569.98 This is a trinocular 7X-90X zoom stereo microscope on a versatile ball-bearing boom stand, giving crystal clear sharp images. It comes with a trinocular head with 30mm super widefield, high-eyepoint WF10X/20 eyepieces and a ball-bearing double-arm boom stand. The ball-bearing design allows you to move the microscope head forward and back so easily that you can have it done by the touch of a finger. The trinocular port enables to add photographic or video capability. This microscope offers high resolution, super widefield of view, large magnifying zoom range and long working distance. It is an ideal instrument for engravers, gemologists, circuit board inspectors and anyone in semiconductor and/or electronics industry. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It comes brand new in its factory sealed boxes. Its retail value is $2,200. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-45X Binocular Stereo Microscope on Ball Bearing Boom Stand $519.98 This is a binocular 7X-45X zoom stereo microscope on a versatile ball-bearing boom stand, giving crystal clear sharp images. It comes with a binocular head with 30mm super widefield, high-eyepoint WF10X/20 eyepieces and a ball-bearing double-arm boom stand. The ball-bearing design allows you to move the microscope head forward and back so easily that you can have it done by the touch of a finger. This microscope offers high resolution, super widefield of view, large magnifying zoom range and long working distance. It is an ideal instrument for engravers, gemologists, circuit board inspectors and anyone in semiconductor and/or electronics industry. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It comes brand new in its factory sealed boxes. Its retail value is $2,200. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-45X Boom Stand Trinocular Zoom Stereo Microscope + 54 LED Light $416.5 This is a trinocular 7X-45X zoom stereo boom microscope with 54-LED ring light. The microscope comes with a trinocular head with 30mm SUPER widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and single-arm heavy-duty boom stand, offering crystal clear sharp images, super widefield of view and large working distance. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-90X Boom Stand Trinocular Zoom Stereo Microscope + 54 LED Light $449.82 This is a a trinocular 7X-90X zoom stereo boom microscope with 54-LED ring light. The microscope comes with a trinocular head with 30mm SUPER widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and single-arm heavy-duty boom stand, offering crystal clear sharp images, super widefield of view and large working distance. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5X-180X Boom Stand Trinocular Zoom Stereo Microscope + 54 LED Light $518.42 This is a a trinocular 3.5X-180X zoom stereo boom microscope with 54-LED ring light. The microscope comes with a trinocular head with 30mm SUPER widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and single-arm heavy-duty boom stand, offering crystal clear sharp images, super widefield of view and large working distance. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5X-45X Boom Stand Trinocular Zoom Stereo Microscope + 54 LED Light $449.82 This is a a trinocular 3.5X-45X zoom stereo boom microscope with 54-LED ring light. The microscope comes with a trinocular head with 30mm SUPER widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and single-arm heavy-duty boom stand, offering crystal clear sharp images, super widefield of view and large working distance. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-180X Boom Stand Trinocular Zoom Stereo Microscope + 54 LED Light $489.02 This is a a trinocular 7X-180X zoom stereo boom microscope with 54-LED ring light. The microscope comes with a trinocular head with 30mm SUPER widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and single-arm heavy-duty boom stand, offering crystal clear sharp images, super widefield of view and large working distance. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5X-90X Boom Stand Trinocular Zoom Stereo Microscope + 54 LED Light $475.3 This is a a trinocular 3.5X-90X zoom stereo boom microscope with 54-LED ring light. The microscope comes with a trinocular head with 30mm SUPER widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and single-arm heavy-duty boom stand, offering crystal clear sharp images, super widefield of view and large working distance. Type: Microscopes

AmScope 2x-225x Trinocular Boom Stand Stereo Zoom Microscope + 9.1MP Camera $1763.02 This is a trinocular 2X-225X extreme widefield zoom stereo microscope with 9.1MP digital image system, providing super crystal clear sharp images. It comes with a trinocular zoom microscope with two pairs of 30mm extreme widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces, a versatile 3D double-arm boom stand, and a 150W fiber optic halogen ring illuminator. The color digital image system captures 9.1 megapixel (3488 X 2616) high resolution microscope images and displays them as full-screen live video on your computer screen. Its built-in reduction lens gives your computer screen the same field of view images as those seen through the microscope eyepieces. With the included user-friendly software, which is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, you can edit microscope images in the same way as you use PhotoShop. You can conduct measurements across images, record videos, share images, and save them in BMP, TIFF, JPG, PICT, PTL and other formats. You can measure lengths, angles, areas and etc. The 3D boom stand allows you to r Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5X-45X Stereo Zoom Microscope on Boom Stand with 80 LED Light $455.7 This binocular 3.5X-45X zoom stereo microscope is on boom stand with 80-LED ring light. It comes with a 45 degree inclined binocular head, super widefield optics, a heavy-duty single-arm boom stand, and a 80-LED ring light. The 45 degree inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optical design ensures easy and comfortable observation. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The microscope offers high resolution, 2-1/2" (65mm) super widefield of view, 13:1 large magnification zoom range and 8" (200mm) long working distance, providing crystal clear sharp images. The 80-LED ring light provides bright, cool and even illumination. It is an ideal instrument for researchers, gemologists, engravers, collectors and anyone in semiconductor and electronics industries. It is also a perfect microscope for biological laboratory applications that require low heat release. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It is Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5x-90x Fiber Optic Dual Light Stereo Boom Microscope $685.02 This is a stereo industrial inspection microscopy system with a halogen dual goose-neck fiber optic illuminator. It includes a binocular 3.5-90X zoom microscope on double-arm boom and a 150 Watt fiber optic illuminator with dual goose-neck lights. It is a perfect inspection viewing system offering sharp crystal clear images. With 30mm super widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces and super widefield reduction objective lenses, the microscope gives extremely large zoom magnification range (26:1) and large working distance (8"). The double-arm boom stand allows you to rotate the microscope head around three different axes that is, you can point the microscope head in any direction you wish. The illuminator comes with two 22"-long metal sheathed fiber optic cables and a 110V light source with intensity-adjustable controls. It provides bright and cool lighting. The fiber optic cables are flexible and can be bent into various positions. This inspection microscopy system is great for both industrial and biological applic Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-90X Stereo Zoom Microscope on Boom Stand with 80 LED Light $455.7 This binocular 7X-90X zoom stereo microscope is on boom stand with 80-LED ring light. It comes with a 45 degree inclined binocular head, super widefield optics, a heavy-duty single-arm boom stand, and a 80-LED ring light. The 45 degree inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optical design ensures easy and comfortable observation. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The microscope offers high resolution, 1-1/4" (33mm) super widefield of view, 13:1 large magnification zoom range and 4" (100mm) long working distance, providing crystal clear sharp images. The 80-LED ring light provides bright, cool and even illumination. It is an ideal instrument for researchers, gemologists, engravers, collectors and anyone in semiconductor and electronics industries. It is also a perfect microscope for biological laboratory applications that require low heat release. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It is br Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5X-90X Stereo Zoom Microscope on Boom Stand with 80 LED Light $489.02 This binocular 3.5X-90X zoom stereo microscope is on boom stand with 80-LED ring light. It comes with a 45 degree inclined binocular head, super widefield optics, a heavy-duty single-arm boom stand, and a 80-LED ring light. The 45 degree inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optical design ensures easy and comfortable observation. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The microscope offers high resolution, 2-1/2" (65mm) super widefield of view, 26:1 large magnification zoom range and 8" (200mm) long working distance, providing crystal clear sharp images. The 80-LED ring light provides bright, cool and even illumination. It is an ideal instrument for researchers, gemologists, engravers, collectors and anyone in semiconductor and electronics industries. It is also a perfect microscope for biological laboratory applications that require low heat release. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It is Type: Microscopes

AmScope 3.5X-180X Stereo Zoom Microscope on Boom Stand with 80 LED Light $538.02 This binocular 3.5X-180X zoom stereo microscope is on boom stand with 80-LED ring light. It comes with a 45 degree inclined binocular head, super widefield optics, a heavy-duty single-arm boom stand, and a 80-LED ring light. The 45 degree inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optical design ensures easy and comfortable observation. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The microscope offers high resolution, 2-1/2" (65mm) super widefield of view, 52:1 large magnification zoom range and 8" (200mm) long working distance, providing crystal clear sharp images. The 80-LED ring light provides bright, cool and even illumination. It is an ideal instrument for researchers, gemologists, engravers, collectors and anyone in semiconductor and electronics industries. It is also a perfect microscope for biological laboratory applications that require low heat release. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It is Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-180X Stereo Zoom Microscope on Boom Stand with 80 LED Light $455.7 This binocular 7X-180X zoom stereo microscope is on boom stand with 80-LED ring light. It comes with a 45 degree inclined binocular head, super widefield optics, a heavy-duty single-arm boom stand, and a 80-LED ring light. The 45 degree inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optical design ensures easy and comfortable observation. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The microscope offers high resolution, 1-1/4" (33mm) super widefield of view, 26:1 large magnification zoom range and 4" (100mm) long working distance, providing crystal clear sharp images. The 80-LED ring light provides bright, cool and even illumination. It is an ideal instrument for researchers, gemologists, engravers, collectors and anyone in semiconductor and electronics industries. It is also a perfect microscope for biological laboratory applications that require low heat release. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It is b Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7X-45X Stereo Zoom Microscope on Boom Stand with 80 LED Light $420.42 This binocular 7X-45X zoom stereo microscope is on boom stand with 80-LED ring light. It comes with a 45 degree inclined binocular head, super widefield optics, a heavy-duty single-arm boom stand, and a 80-LED ring light. The 45 degree inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optical design ensures easy and comfortable observation. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The microscope offers high resolution, super widefield of view, large magnification zoom range and long working distance, providing crystal clear sharp images. The 80-LED ring light provides bright, cool and even illumination. It is an ideal instrument for researchers, gemologists, engravers, collectors and anyone in semiconductor and electronics industries. It is also a perfect microscope for biological laboratory applications that require low heat release. This microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line that makes optical instruments for Leica, Zeiss, Nikon and Olympus. It is brand new in factory sealed boxe Type: Microscopes

AmScope 7x-45x Stereo Zoom Boom Microscope + Fiber Optic Ring Light $655.62 This is a binocular 7X-45X zoom stereo microscope on boom with fiber optic illuminator. It comes with a 45° inclined binocular head, super widefield high-eyepoint eyepieces, a heavy-duty boom stand and a 150-watt fiber optic ring illuminator. The 45° inclined eye tube and high-eyepoint optic design ensures an easy and comfortable observation, especially for eyeglass wearers. The rubber eyeguards provide further comfort. The fiber optic ring illuminator provides bright, even and cool illumination. Its top window design is convenient for changing bulbs. Its auto-shut-off mechanism will cut off electricity automatically when the window is open. The illuminator comes with a 35" (890mm) metal-sheathed light cable. The ring light is 150Watt with 2-1/8" (56mm) inside diameter and 3-1/8" (80mm) outside diameter. It is fully adjustable in intensity. The light source is a 110V unit with solid-state controls and a two-step, 5/8" and 25/32" (16mm and 20mm in diameter), adaptive hole for the fiber optic cable. This micr Type: Microscopes