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Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations

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Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations

by Christina Blackie

EN·~10 hours·8 chapters

Chapters

8 total

A DICTIONARY OF PLACE-NAMES

0:15

PREFACE

4:45

INTRODUCTION

48:10

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

7:53:12

INDEX

1:04:14

MR. MURRAY’S LIST.

3:03

MR. MURRAY’S STUDENTS’ MANUALS.

3:28

MANUALS AND TEXT-BOOKS OF GEOGRAPHY.

3:02

Description

First published under title: Etymological geography.

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~10 hours (576K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: John Murray, 1887.

Credits

Brian Coe, Karin Spence. The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2022-09-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69018

Subjects

Names, Geographical G

About the author

Christina Blackie

b. 1808

Best known for a richly researched dictionary of place-names, this nineteenth-century writer explored the stories hidden inside geography and language. Her work turns maps into something more human, showing how history lingers in the names people use every day.

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