Collection: Reference

Brings together in one volume most all aspects - geological, environmental, archaeological, ethnic, linguistic, ethnographic and historical - of a large heterogeneous but in many ways boundaried and distinctive region.

This revised and expanded edition features hundreds of new entries on everything from blogs and designer babies to New York's mysterious sewer-dwelling alligators, as well as a selection of 'heritage entries' from a Victorian edition of Brewer's

Five thousand quotations and the stories behind them.