Subtitle: The Curious Histories of Place Names
This looked like an interesting and quirky subject so I picked it up in a recent used bookstore visit. The author provides numerous examples of how, why and where place names came about. He explains where some names came from and the influence of explorers and conquerors. However, he doesn't know how to tell a story and one chapter after another dragged on from example to example with no coherent message. It did raise my awareness and will have me contemplating the origin of place names I come across in my genealogy research.
Published: 1997 Read: March 2020 Genre: Non-fiction, geography
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