The Cambridge encyclopedia
Language: English
Published by CUP Cambridge, 1994
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Ex-library. viii 1347 pages illustrations maps ; 30 cm edited by David Crystal. English.
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- Title
- The Cambridge encyclopedia
- Author
- Crystal David edited by David Crystal
- Publisher
- CUP Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Not present
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521444292
- ISBN 13
- 9780521444293
- Edition
- 1.
- Seller catalogs
- Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
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The editorial content is clear and wastes no words. It manages to be accessible without over-simplifying, to a remarkable degree. Take the entry on Aesop as an example. After a pronunciation guide, we read:
"(?6th-c BC) Legendary Greek fabulist. He is supposed to have been a native of Phrygia and a slave who, after being set free, travelled to Greece. The fables attributed to him are anecdotes which use animals to make a moral point and are, in all probability, a compilation of tales from many sources. The stories were popularised by the Roman poet Phaedrus in the 1st-c AD, and rewritten in sophisticated verse by La Fontaine in 1668." There are cross-references to "fable; Greek Literature; La Fontaine; Phaedrus."The same clarity and economy are maintained consistently throughout the whole vast tome. And it is massive: there are about 40,000 "separately identified people, places and topics" with thousands of those useful cross-references to link entries together, a 24-page colour atlas section, and 800 black and white illustrations to back up the text. The book really does succeed in its aim of being a standard reference for "home, school, library or office," useful for both adults and teenage students. --David Pickering
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