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The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names Hardback - 2014

by John Wright

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Latin names--frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel--have been annoying the layman since they first became formalized as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.

Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus, or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus--'dirty old man'? What were naturalists thinking when they called a beetle Agra katewinsletae, a genus of fish Batman, and a Trilobite Han solo? Why is zoology replete with names such as Chloris chloris chloris (the greenfinch), and Gorilla gorilla gorilla (a species of, well gorilla)?

The Naming of the Shrew will unveil these mysteries, exploring the history, celebrating their poetic nature and revealing how naturalists sometimes get things so terribly wrong. With wonderfully witty style and captivating narrative, this book will make you see Latin names in a whole new light.

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  • Title The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names
  • Author John Wright
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Publication date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781408816981 / 1408816989
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.12 x 5.31 x 1.08 in (20.62 x 13.49 x 2.74 cm)
  • Category Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books
  • Library of Congress subjects Biology, Biology - Classification
  • Dewey Decimal Code 570.14

About the author

John Wright is a passionate natural historian and the author of the River Cottage Handbooks Mushrooms, Edible Seashore, Hedgerow and Booze. As well as writing for national publications, he often appears on the River Cottage series for Channel 4. He gives lectures on natural history and every year he takes around fifty 'forays' showing people how to collect food--plants from the hedgerow, seaweeds and shellfish from the shore and mushrooms from pasture and wood. Over a period of twenty years he has taken around five hundred such forays. Fungi are his greatest passion and he has thirty-five years of experience in studying them. Wright is a member of the British Mycological Society and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society. He lives in rural West Dorset with his wife and two teenage daughters.

@johnmushroom / www.wild-food.net

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