The background study of Switzerland features 'Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation' and 'the Geneva Bible,' 'Bible of the Pilgrims, important in the study of the 'Bible-in-English link.' The history and geography of Switzerland is also studied, as well as related literature including the work of Frances Ridley Havergal, Lord Byron's poem, and the opera William Tell by Rossini. The literary study of the book Heidi features cultivating the 'inward eye' of the imagination.