The Naming of the Shrew by John Wright

The Naming of the Shrew

John Wright

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction nature science adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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Latin names - frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel - have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century. Why on earth has the entirely land-...

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