The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium : How Jules Leotard, Adolphe Sax, Roy Jacuzzi and co. immortalised their names in the dictionary

ISBN-13: 9780099505723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str.

Philip Dodd

Opis

Philip Dodd explores the lives of an extraordinarily diverse range of people who happen to have one thing in common: by chance or deliberately, they have left their names deeply embedded in the language and conciousness of future generations.

Recenzje

... brilliantly funny and engaging Scotland on Sunday

O autorze

Philip Dodd developed a love of words and language as the son of dedicated crossword solvers, while studying French and Spanish at Oxford, and in a career as a book publisher and editor. His books include The Book Of Cities and Musical Instruments. He has also worked with the Rolling Stones for their autobiography According To The Rolling Stones, and with Nick Mason on his memoir Inside Out: A Personal History Of Pink Floyd, and he is the editor of Genesis: Chapter & Verse. He lives in London and in Rochester, Kent with his wife, two daughters and a tankful of guppies.