Wikipedia Trail: From Sindbad to Lycée Charlemagne
(Image Information: Sindbad the Sailor, Wikipedia ) I started by searching for Sindbad the Sailor on Wikipedia since his story is the most recent I have read for this class. Wikipedia describes Sindbad as "a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin." From this page, I was led to The Count of Monte Cristo , which is simply described as " an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas." I am familiar with Dumas, though I have yet to finish the Count of Monte Cristo. According to Wikipedia, the main character in the Count of Monte Cristo uses the name Sindbad the Sailor as an alias at one point. I loved learning this fact, and it makes me glad I read Sindbad. Next, I went to the page of Auguste Maquet who is described as "a French author, best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas." I was very intrigued to find out that Alexandre Dumas worked with a ghos...