From a recent New York Times Book Review, in the "By the Book" author interview of Janet Evanovich (author of popular mystery series with much humor):
If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be?
"North of the Yukon," by Carl Barks. Actually, I'd have to lump together all those early Scrooge McDuck books by Carl Barks. They gave me a lifelong love for adventure stories. And I still aspire to have a money bin like Scrooge and push my spare change around with a bulldozer.
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Matilda
Janet Evanovich has good taste
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2015-01-23 at 14:09:01
Thomps2525
Janet Evanovich has good taste
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2015-01-23 at 22:43:08
...and dive through it like a porpoise...and burrow through it like a gopher...and toss it up and let it hit her on the head. :)
So Janet Evanovich was inspired by Uncle Scrooge stories...which were, in turn, often inspired by National Geographic articles. In this case, North Of The Yukon featured an old sled dog named Barko, who Barks created after reading about the heroic sled dog Balto in an old issue of Geographic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto
So Janet Evanovich was inspired by Uncle Scrooge stories...which were, in turn, often inspired by National Geographic articles. In this case, North Of The Yukon featured an old sled dog named Barko, who Barks created after reading about the heroic sled dog Balto in an old issue of Geographic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto
Arild
Janet Evanovich has good taste
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2015-01-24 at 08:49:51
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