Websites Consulted in writing Blue Planet Series...

Websites Consulted in Writing Blue Planet & Beyond

With one exception (Jared Diamond's Collapse), author Jeff Barbour relied exclusively on the World Wide Web as a source for facts and information presented in Blue Planet & Beyond.

Although far more information is available in published books and periodicals, Jeff's technique of writing is to avoid actually reading other people's work. The idea is to avoid conceptual contamination that comes out of reading other writer's books in toto. Use of the Internet means specific search and find methods (based on discrete questions) can be employed while writing. Although this approach has been criticized by some reviewers, Jeff's goal in writing is to bring a completely original pespective to any topic. This allows for the fullest expression of the intuito-imaginative faculty and results in new, far more synthetic ways of interpreting subject matter and events...

And what about that one book?

Jeff just happened to have read Jared Diamond's chapter on Easter Island before undertaking his writing venture. Readers comparing both books will see significant differences in the way the two writers interpret events on Easter Island.

The following webpages were included as appendices to Blue Planet & Beyond