The Cambridge Encyclopedia
3rd Edition
- Editor: David Crystal
- Date Published: September 1997
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521584593
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia is unrivalled for academic authority and comprehensiveness, as well as its style and concision. Thoroughly revised and updated, with nearly 20,000 more words, the Third Edition incorporates: • Full-colour flags for all the 203 countries of the world - including all new flags since 1994 • 24 full-colour world maps • Over 26,000 A-Z entries, with over 85,000 cross-references, 250 maps and 330 illustrations - giving unequalled coverage of biographical, scientific, geographic, historical and international issues. • A 128-page Ready Reference - presenting, in readily accessible tabular and illustrative form, over 10,000 entries. 'The work is to be praised as a triumph of publishing technology' Anthony Burgess, The Observer (on the 1st edition)
Read more- 'Thousands of enlightenments' Time Magazine
- '… a triumph … for sheer intelligence and rigour of co-operation between Crystal and his associates.' Anthony Burgess, The Observer
- Thoroughly updated for this new edition
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- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Date Published: September 1997
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521584593
- length: 1313 pages
- dimensions: 283 x 229 x 65 mm
- weight: 3.04kg
- contains: 330 b/w illus. 26 colour illus. 251 maps
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Preface
How to use The Cambridge Encyclopedia
Atlas section
A-Z section
Ready Reference section
Consultants and contributors.
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