When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Nikos Kazantzakis (1.8)
- Blaise Pascal (1.17; 6.31)
- Henry David Thoreau (1.28)
- Stewart Edward White, The Mountains (2.6)
- Donald E. Carr (2.9)
- Marius von Senden, Space and Sight (2.22)
- Edwin Way Teale (3.1)
- William Shakespeare (3.1)
- Ellery Channing (3.36)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (3.36)
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping (6.11)
- Goethe, Faust (6.18)
- Michael Goldman (6.21)
- Thomas Merton (6.25)
- Roseanne Coggeshall (6.27)
- Pliny (6.40)
- Arthur Koestler (6.42)
- Martin Buber (2.29; 6.47; 11.51)
- Rimbaud (6.50)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (7.4)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan (7.5)
- William Blake (8.32)
- T.S. Eliot (10.32)
- Bertrand Russell (10.32)
- Rutherford Platt, The Great American Forest (10.19)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (11.61; 15.29)
- John Knoepfle (11.69)
- Horace Kephart, Camping and Woodcraft (12.38)
- Will Barker, Familiar Insects of North America (13.17)
- Donald Culross Peattie (14.10)
- Isak Dinesen (15.21)
Historical References
- Albert Einstein (1.17; 11.66)
- Lewis and Clark (1.22)
- James Archibald Houston (1.33)
- Vincent van Gogh (2.15)
- Peter Freuchen (2.15)
- Galileo (2.21)
- Jacques Ellul (2.36)
- di Chirico (4.23)
- Picasso; Cubism (6.19)
- Xerxes (6.29)
- Dorothy Dunnett (6.36)
- Asen Balicki (7.24)
- Robert E. Coker (7.39)
- Breughel (8.10)
- Paul Klee (8.10)
- El Greco (8.10)
- Aeschylus (10.36)
- Heyerdahl (10.46)
- W.C. Fields (10.49)
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (10.50)
- Heraclitus (11.8)
- William H. Amos (11.25)
- Werner Heisenberg (11.62)
- Kepler (11.66)
- Tiepolo (12.33)
- Genghis Khan (14.10)
Pop Culture References
- Mark Spitz (9.15)