References


Preface.
G Robb, The Discovery of France, p346. 
G Robb, The Ancient Paths.
N Crane, Two Degrees West.
WB Yeats, Where There is Nothing.

France.
H Ormsby, France, a Regional and Economic Geography, p3.
Robb, The Discovery of France, chapter 4, and p28.

Day 1.
T Hilton, One More Kilometre and We’ll be in the Shower, p77-78.
Robb, The Ancient Paths, p10.
R Barthes, Mythologies, ‘Plastic’.
M Winock in Howarth & Varouxakis, Contemporary France, p113.
A de Tocqueville in Howard & Varouxakis, p1.

Day 2.
J Michell, The Earth Spirit, p23.
E Thomas, The South Country, epigraph, from Where There is Nothing, by WB Yeats.
L Durrell, Clea, p243.
J Michell, The Earth Spirit, p5.
L Aragon, Paris Peasant, p150 & p157.
Robb, The Discovery of France, p22.

Day 3.
Ruskin, The Bible of Amiens, p22.
Hilton, One More Kilometre … See full quote on Day 1, p2.
Robb, The Ancient Paths, p67, p75.
Ruskin, The Bible of Amiens, p12.
Barthes, Mythologies. ‘The Nautilus & the Bateau ivre’. ‘New Citroën’.

Day 4.
Ormsby, France, p168.
M Proust, On Reading Ruskin.
Ruskin, The Bible of Amiens, passim.
The Revelation of St John, chap 21, v17.
S Murray, Amiens Cathedral.
F Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

Day 5.
L Grant, in Speculum,reviewing S Murray’s Beauvais Cathedral.
S Murray, Beauvais Cathedral.
Thomas, The South Country, p5.
R Coon, Spheres of Destiny.
Robb, The Ancient Paths, p76.

Day 6.
T Gunn, ‘On the Move’.
B Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, p155.
G de Nerval, Aurélia, p130.
R Holmes, Footsteps, p271.
Y Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, p36.
S Murray, Plotting Gothic.

Day 7.
G Perec, Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien.
B Chatwin, Songlines, p291.
Thomas, The South Country, p60.

Day 8.
I Némirovsky, Suite Française.
Robb, The Discovery of France, p223.

Day 9.
Howarth & Varouxakis, Contemporary France, p116. 
J Huizinga, The Middle Ages, p105.
R Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy.
Romance of the Rose, lines 103-115.
Ormsby, France p159, quoting Reclus, Geographie Rapide, p49.

Day 10.
Romance of the Rose, line 132.
Michelet quoted in P Wolff, The Awakening of Europe, p113.
Glaber quoted in Wolff, p116.
The Revelation of St John, chap 21, v1-2.
N Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium, p13.
The Revelation of St John, chap 21.
J Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Harari, Sapiens, p27.
T Traherne, Centuries II90.
Grandville, Un Autre Monde.
V Hugo, Les Misérables, ‘L’Argot’.

Day 11.
Lucan, Pharsalia.
Robb, The Ancient Paths, passim.
Ormsby, France, p159.
Robb, The Discovery of France, p9, quoting Grandsire.
Robb, ibid, p38.
Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes, p46.

Day 12.
Barthes, Mythologies, ‘Electoral Photogeny’.
Ormsby, France, p157.
T Pynchon, Against the Day, p88.
R Gildea, Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, p38.
D Brown, The Da Vinci Code, p121.
Barthes, Mythologies, ‘The Tour de France as Epic’.
Robb, The Ancient Paths, p78.

Day 13.
Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes, passim.

Day 14.
Ormsby, France, p29.
J Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra.
R M Rilke, The Journals of Malte Laurids Brigge, pp127-135.
Durrell, Clea, p243.
Thomas, The South Country, p259.

Day 15.
Robb, The Discovery of France, p226.

Day 16.
J Thurber, ‘The Day the Dam Broke’.
Robb, The Discovery of France, chapters 1 & 9.
K Walton, Diggers and Dreamers, pp173-4.

Day 17.
P Wolff, The Awakening of Europe, pp111,172, 181, 182.

Day 18.
F White, Three Rivers of France, p92.
Robb, The Discovery of France, p265.

Day 19.
Walton, Diggers and Dreamers, p8.
Barthes, Mythologies.
C Lévi-Strauss, La Pensée Sauvage, Ch 1.
Harari, Sapiens, p27.
G Perec, Life A User’s Manual, p3.
Barthes, Mythologies, ‘Steak-Frites’.

Day 20.
A Benzaquen, Encounters with Wild Children, p163.
Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy.
R Weiss, The Yellow Cross, p159.
Michell, The Earth Spirit, p23.

Day 21.
Robb, The Discovery of France, chapters 1 and 9.
Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet IX.

Day 22.
Nerval, Aurélia, p1.

Day 23.
R I Moore, The War on Heresy, pp 203, 248, 247, 248, 251.
P Esterhazy, Celestial Harmonies.

Day 24.
H Melville, Moby-Dick Ch. 74: ‘The sperm whale’s head – contrasted view’.
‘I begin to see …’ H D Thoreau, A Year in Thoreau’s Journal: 1851, p19.
‘Education, I fear …’ A Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, p168.
‘The One that can be told …’ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 1.
‘The One remains …’ P B Shelley, Adonais, verse 52.
‘Stripping oneself of passion …’ Tao Te Ching, 1.
‘Even supposing the pure principles…’ R Jeffries, The Story of my Heart, p 60.
‘Face to face …’ ibid, p 56.
‘The idea of the pilgrimage …’ ibid, p106.
E le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou, p15. 
Moore, The War on Heresy, p 338.
Ladurie, Montaillou, p293.
Barthes, Mythologies, ‘Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature’.
Ladurie, Montaillou, p xi.

Day 25.
D Wood, Genisis: The First Book of Revelations, p4, p275.
Gawain & The Green Knight, p130.
Esterhazy, Celestial Harmonies.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Day 26.
Yeats, Where There is Nothing.

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