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
- Arthur Conan Doyle (Preface.6) (1.3) (3.1) (4.30) (10.6) (17.21)
- William Shakespeare, including Othello (1.8) (4.22)
- Charles Dickens (1.19)
- Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (2.8)
- Ernest Hemingway (2.12) (18.25)
- Mark Twain (4.12)
- William Butler Yeats (4.28)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (4.30)
- Sigmund Freud (4.30)
- Charles Darwin (4.30) (12.13) (14.19)
- Sir Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (4.35)
- E. M. Forster (4.35)
- Joseph Conrad (4.40)
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Explorer" (8.3) (8.12)
- Lewis Carroll (17.39)
- Ian Fleming (22.50)
- Homer, The Odyssey (22.57)
- Graham Green (24.12)
Historical References
- Thomas Hobbes (Preface.5)
- Christopher Columbus (Preface.6) (8.15)
- David Livingstone (1.2) (4.34) (22.10)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1.8) (15.12)
- Amelia Earhart (2.12)
- Richard Francis Burton (4.34)
- Giacomo Puccini (8.15)
- Ernest Shackleton (Chapter 12) (17.15)
- Judas (12.42)
- Theodore Roosevelt (12.45) (14.35) (22.11)
- Winston Churchill (14.21) (17.8)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (14.25)
- Hernán Cortés (15.4)
- World War I (17.2)
- Woodrow Wilson (17.45)
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (18.33)
- Henry Morton Stanley (22.10)
Pop Culture References
- 60 Minutes (3.18)
- James Bond (7.17)
- Babe Ruth (17.45)
- Clark Gable (18.2)
- Mary Pickford (18.2)
- Lawrence of Arabia (18.3)
- Road to Zanzibar with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope (21.48)
- Adventures of Tintin (21.48)
- Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils (21.50)