When authors give shout outs 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
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1.67, referenced throughout)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2.21)
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (3.39)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (12.52)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (13.54, referenced throughout)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (14.42)
- Edgar Allan Poe, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (14.46)
Historical References
- Ichabod Paddock (1.15)
- Edmund Burke (1.19)
- Mary Coffin Starbuck (1.23)
- Peleg Folger (1.25)
- Lucretia Coffin Mott (1.51)
- John D. Rockefeller (1.67)
- William Comstock (1.68, referenced throughout)
- Richard Henry Dana Jr. (2.30, referenced throughout)
- Benjamin Franklin (2.46)
- David Porter (4.2, referenced throughout)
- Thomas Cochrane, aka Lord Cochrane (4.7)
- George Washington Gardner (4.18)
- James Colnett (4.30)
- Charles Darwin (4.30)
- Christopher Columbus (5.1)
- Nathaniel Bowditch (5.36)
- Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff (6.15)
- Théodore Géricault (8.2)
- Matthew Fontaine Maury (8.26)
- Ancel Keys (10.29)
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (11.17)
- Frederick Douglass (14.43)
- Samuel Comstock (14.44)