I was thinking this would be a great hypothetical compilation for the Raveners...
-- We saw glimpses of Dr. Jones' bookshelves and classroom, but what titles would be in his library?
They'd have to have been available in the time period of the films, and exist in our reality, too.
Why? Because this little exercise would be a fun way for us to generate a virtual list, and maybe even read up on what Indy would read "In Universe"...
So...here are some possibilities for the bookshelves of Dr. Henry Jones Jr.:
1) A Cyclopaedia of Universal History, by John Clark Ridpath (1880-4)
2) Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, by Mungo Park (1799)
3) Journals, by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)
4) West With the Night, by Beryl Markham (it would have been new during the war, in 1942)
5) Travels, by Marco Polo (1298)
6) Roughing It, by Mark Twain (1872)?
7) Journey Without Maps, by Graham Greene (1936)
8) Brazilian Adventure, by Peter Fleming (1933)
9) Gród Prasłowiański w Biskupine w Powiecie Znińskim, by Józef Kostrzewski (1938).
10) ...of course, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by his old friend - T.E. Lawrence (1926)
...that's just a start...archaeology texts, maps, journals, etc... to come...?
Yes..! I do remember that article...I guess I was just hoping to get the collaborative nature of the boards to help extend the list...and give some good ideas for reading materials..
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I know that Indy would be an academic and have tons of leather-bound tomes on many subjects, but I could also see him enjoying pulp.
I would bet that he has many copies of Weird Tales Magazine and enjoyed Robert E. Howard and HP Lovecraft's tales therein.
He would most likely read Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs also.
Maybe he also has a few copies of Oriental Tales Magzine laying on his coffee table, and he gets a good laugh from the stories. Why? Because he lived to see many strange things there and could write a book of his true tales!
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10) ...of course, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by his old friend - T.E. Lawrence (1926)
Without a doubt! I have my grandfather's 1936 edition w/dustjacket and have never read it entirely (it's BIG) but cherish it all the same.
Some more to add would be:
"Lost City of the Incas", by Hiram Bingham, 1948
"Danger, My Ally", F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, 1954
"Kon-Tiki", by Thor Heyerdahl, 1950
"Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island", by Thor Heyerdahl, 1958
"The Money Pit: The Story of Oak Island and the World's Greatest Treasure Hunt", by D'arcy O'Connor, 1978 (Yes, Indy lives that long!)
I could also picture Indy plunking down and reading some Sherlock Holmes tales.
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Originally Posted by Lonsome_Drifter
but I could also see him enjoying pulp.
I would bet that he has many copies of Weird Tales Magazine and enjoyed Robert E. Howard and HP Lovecraft's tales therein.
He would most likely read Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs also.
You are more right than you may realize. Two books we know that he has read for sure are:
"Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout", by Victor Appleton (Edward Stratemeyer), 1910. In the "Princeton, 1916" episode of Young Indy, the viewer is actually IN Indy's head as he reads from the pages. Cool sequence!
"From the Earth to the Moon", by Jules Verne, 1865. Indy says he loves this book in "Winds of Change".
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You are more right than you may realize. Two books we know that he has read for sure are:
"Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout", by Victor Appleton (Edward Stratemeyer), 1910. In the "Princeton, 1916" episode of Young Indy, the viewer is actually IN Indy's head as he reads from the pages. Cool sequence!
"From the Earth to the Moon", by Jules Verne, 1865. Indy says he loves this book in "Winds of Change".
Thanks for the information Stoo!
I never knew that Indy has read those books. I wish I could have afforded the Young Indy dvds. There is so much Indy lore that I fear I shall never see.
BOOK: The Open Mind ; the Oppenheimer lectures
By: J. Robert Oppenheimer
WHY?: Shows Oppenheimer's viewpoints about atomic weapons and their related fields and insight into Oppenheimer himself.
(Kingdom of the Crystal skull)
BOOK: Lost Horizon
By: James Hilton
Why: Reminds him of his adventures and how folklore can be reinvented into a good read. (Ending is like Last Crusade ending)
Chariots of the Gods by Eric Von Daniken. Indy contacts Von Daniken to let him know that the aliens may be interdimentional. He also sets up an introduction with Harold Oxley!
Truman Michelson was an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1910 to 1938. His specialty was Algonquian linguistics and culture.
Michelson, Truman. 1921. "The Owl sacred pack of the Fox Indians." Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 72. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
Michelson, Truman. 1925. "Accompanying papers." Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 40: 21-658. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
Jones, William. 1917. Ojibwa texts. Volume 1. Ed. Truman Michelson. Leiden: American Ethnological Society Publications 7.1 (Vol. 1
Jones, William. 1919. Ojibwa texts. Volume 2. Ed. Truman Michelson. New York: G. Stechert.
i always thought that he would own "war and peace" by Leo Tolstoy, im reading it now actually, its really good
Didn't Tolstoy give young Indy a family bible or something? Not a huge fan of young Indy, so I haven't seen them more than once or twice. So he may have read Tolstoy's Bible.
Also:
Sir Alan Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar - first published in 1927 and still a primary text
Gardiner's Egypt of the Pharaohs
Geovani Batista Belzoni's Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, (1820) --- Fantastic adventure story from an early antiquarian --- I read an original copy in the rare books library at the American University in Cairo. It was reissued a few years ago and can be found cheap on Amazon. I highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/Travels-Egypt-...7914721&sr=1-1
Between digging for artifacts and dangling from cliffs, Indiana Jones must have very little time to read, never mind to buy books. Luckily, he has a team of people to do it for him. Dr. Jones—as represented by the set decorators for the forthcoming film “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”—recently engaged the Strand Bookstore’s Books-by-the-Foot service, which provides ready-made libraries for private homes, stores, and movie sets.
Although prop books are meant to be seen and not read, they have to evoke a mise en scène, inside and out. For Indiana Jones, the filmmakers specified that the books cover such topics as paleontology, marine biology, and pre-Columbian society. They had to be in muted colors and predate 1957. “People have gotten so character-specific nowadays,” Jenny McKibben, a manager at the store, said. “It can’t just be color anymore. With high-def, they can just freeze the film and say, ‘Oh, that’s so inappropriate.’ ”
Since the program’s inception, in 1986, the Strand has built scores of imaginary reading rooms, from the prison library in “Oz” to the Barnes & Noble clone in “You’ve Got Mail.” Clients also include window dressers, commercial architects (the Strand furnished each floor in the Library Hotel with a different Dewey decimal category), and people with more shelf space than leisure time. Kelsey Grammer requested all hardback fiction in two of his homes, while Steven Spielberg, who, incidentally, is the director of the new Indiana Jones movie, allowed a wider range (cookbooks, children’s books, volumes on art and film) to penetrate his Hamptons estate. “There have been a lot of biographies on him, so I put those in there, too,” Nancy Bass Wyden, a co-owner of the store, said.
Customers can choose from eighteen basic library styles, for purchase or rental. “Bargain books,” a random selection of hardbacks, is the cheapest, at ten dollars per foot of shelf space. For thirty dollars, clients can customize the color. For seventy-five, they can get a “leather-looking” library, which, as the Strand’s Web site puts it, “is often mistaken for leather.”
Despite this emphasis on form over content, McKibben approaches her job more like a librarian than like a decorator. “It’s really just knowing books and knowing what people read,” she said, as she sorted through stacks in her third-floor office. In front of her, a shelf held volumes reserved for a wedding centerpiece (Russell Banks’s “The Darling,” A. N. Wilson’s “The Victorians”).
To her left was a rolling cart on which she was building a personal library. “The designers or the clients tell me a little about themselves,” McKibben said, dragging the cart toward her. “This one is for a family.” She pointed out “kid-friendly” books on the Beatles and Charlie Chaplin, and a Dave Eggers volume (“because there are teen-agers in the house”). McKibben spun the cart around to the father’s section. “We’re kind of guessing the character,” she said. “The husband is in finance. He likes the History Channel, the Biography Channel. It’s like my dad, and I know what’s in my dad’s library.” The selections included a biography of John Quincy Adams and a hulking gold volume called “India After Gandhi.”
Downstairs on the shopping floor, Bibbi Taylor, a Strand manager, perused the Africa aisle for Indiana Jones material. Taylor has a discerning eye for historical-looking history books. She quickly eliminated a rust-colored Paul Theroux and a baby-blue Alexandra Fuller (both were too recent), and zeroed in on a beat-up orange hardback. “This looks good,” she said, pulling out “The White Nile,” Alan Moorehead’s classic history of Egyptian exploration. “It has that older worn look, which makes sense, because Indy’s on the road all the time.” When Taylor saw the copyright date, 1960, she recanted. “That’s pushing it,” she said.
Taylor weaved around some undergraduates and shifted two bookcases to the left. “Indy’s a philosopher of sorts, so I’d want some ancient-Greek stuff,” she said. She leaned down to a lower shelf and pulled out a green book with a faded spine. “Oh, yes! A ’39 ‘Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture,’ ” she said. “This could be something that he’s read many times.”
“Paideia” in hand, Taylor recalled other recent projects. For a drug dealer in “American Gangster,” she gathered leather-looking books. For the gym-trainer character that Frances McDormand plays in an upcoming Coen brothers film, she collected self-help titles and romance novels (“a lot of Fabio”). Indiana Jones, though, was clearly her favorite client. “Dr. Jones, he’s my hero,” Taylor said. “I get to get inside his mind, touch the books that Harrison Ford will touch.” ♦
The Pictures, “Books in Bulk,” The New Yorker, October 1, 2007, p. 42.
What books would Indy have on his shelves?
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Two books we know that he has read for sure are:
