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- mjain19 - Jul 03 2008 | travel india, travel to india
okie...
This book sounds really cool - this is something I've actually often wondered about...
Quoted: First published in 1945 and about to be reissued in the NYRB Classics series, it is an epic account of how just about everything in America—creeks and valleys, rivers and mountains, streets and schools, towns and cities, counties and states, the country and continent itself—came to be named.
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I always think about this. Looks super interesting.