Reverend Guppy's Aquarium

Philip Dodd

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (Young)

Publication Date : 27/09/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

An entertaining and idiosyncratic tour of the lives of those whose names have become part of the language from Joseph Guillotin to Joseph B. Frisbie. Tells the stories behind saxophone and is the perfect book for all lovers of language.

Publisher's description:

How did the Texas cattle rancher Samuel A Maverick end up contributing his name to the language? Which filling did the Earl of Sandwich opt for when he made his great culinary invention? This book answers these and other questions, exploring the lives of people who left their names embedded in the language and consciousness of future generations.

ISBN: 9781905211586