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Nick Rennison

Peter Mark Roget

The Man Who Became The Thesaurus - A Biography

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Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? Of those who know that it owes its name to the man who first devised it, how many know anything more about him? Yet Peter Mark Roget was one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century and he achieved much in his long life. He did not even begin the great work of classification which bears his name until he was 70. Before that, the polymathic Roget had already made his own contributions to knowledge in a dozen different fields from optics and anatomy to mathematics and education. He would… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-84344-793-1
  • EAN: 9781843447931
  • Produktnummer: 18607417
  • Verlag: Oldcastle Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 525 KB

Über den Autor


Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He has written several Pocket Essential guides published by Oldcastle Books including A Short History of the Polar Exploration, Roget, Freud and Robin Hood. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His debut crime novel, Carver's Quest, is set in nineteenth century England and published by Atlantic Books. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine and is an editorial consultant to Gaslight Crime and Mystery.

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