杏吧原创

The Hutchinson Dictionary of 杏吧原创s (Helicon, 拢30, ISBN 1 85986 048
6) is a sober title for an enthralling work. Dip into it and you鈥檙e hypnotised.
It amounts to a history of world development from the earliest times, in
gulpable titbits, and is astonishingly compendious and laced with quotations.
Rightly, the term 鈥渟cientists鈥� is taken in the widest sense, so Jacuzzi,
Gagarin, Lindbergh, Captain Cook and even Hildegard of Bingen appear in its
pages. An inspiring dictionary?