The Cambridge encyclopedia - David Crystal

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)