This is a serious work of reference which is intended, at the same time, to be an enjoyable read. It will find its place on the student's desk, or (for dipping into) on the bedside table. It will appeal to anyone who enjoys making serendipitous discoveries and makes a perfect Christmas stocking-filler for any book-lover.
What's Who? Zusammenfassung
What's Who?: A Dictionary of Things Named After People... Roger Jones
This book is an enjoyable reference book, which looks at eponymy, the naming of things after people.
Über Roger Jones
Roger Jones was born in 1939 to Welsh parents. Brought up in Yorkshire on the edge of Ilkley Moor, he was educated at Uppingham School and Jesus College, Oxford. He spent ten years as teacher of English to foreign learners in London, Athens and Oxford and twelve years as smallholder in Wales, breeding sheep and goats, before working for fifteen years as English translator for the Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne (the body which represents the Burgundy wine industry). In between times he has worked as a jazz musician, furniture restorer and fencing contractor. He is now retired and devoted full-time to writing.
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GOR003254589
9781848760479
1848760477
What's Who?: A Dictionary of Things Named After People... Roger Jones
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