This book has been written so that they will not leave. In these pages the past and the present come together. The dead are reborn, the anonymous are named: the men who raised the palaces and temples of their masters; the women, ignored by those who ignore what they fear; the south and east of the world, despised by those who despise what they ignore; the many worlds that the world contains and hides; the thinkers and feelers; the curious, condemned for asking, and the rebels and the losers and the mad, who have been and are the salt of the earth.