I am indebted to my son Angelos for his tremendous help in designing and editing the book as well as for his patience throughout all its production stages .

I should like to thank Sir David and Lady Hunt for their great help , encouragement and most valuable advice .

I am most grateful to the late Claude Delaval Cobham whose Excerpta Cypria has been my source of so many of the interesting comments of visitors to Cyprus from A.D. 43 to 1866 which I feel add another dimension to the nostalgic images I have recorded .

I am equally indebted to the late Rupert Gunnis whose Historic Cyprus has been a constant companion and guide during my journeys in Cyprus and from which I have obtained much of my information and quoted a number of passages

To Sunvil Travel and its directors Noel Josephides and John der Partogh I owe thanks for their friendly and personal attention in arranging all my numerous flights to Cyprus .