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Off the Map: The Curious History of Place Names
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Title: Off the Map: The Curious History of Place Names
Author: Derek Nelson
ISBN: 9781568361741
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
Published: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher Description:
Is it Rangoon, Burma (as the American media prefer), or Yangon, Myanmar (as their government decrees)? Is it Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire? What keeps us from calling other countries by the names they use for themselves? The Hindu names for Indian isn't India and the Japanese don't call their country Japan. The tangled answers to these questions- and to dozens of other typonymic conundra- appear in this armchair adventure around the four corners of the globe (a biblical phrase that resulted in the belief that the earth was square).
Author: Derek Nelson
ISBN: 9781568361741
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
Published: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher Description:
Is it Rangoon, Burma (as the American media prefer), or Yangon, Myanmar (as their government decrees)? Is it Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire? What keeps us from calling other countries by the names they use for themselves? The Hindu names for Indian isn't India and the Japanese don't call their country Japan. The tangled answers to these questions- and to dozens of other typonymic conundra- appear in this armchair adventure around the four corners of the globe (a biblical phrase that resulted in the belief that the earth was square).
