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"This wonderful collection of seventy-six essays explores the fascinating origin and meaning of the names of some of the towns, villages, cities, islands, mountains, and rivers that make up one of the world's largest countries. This new edition includes fifteen more essays, and updates the previous essays to include changes, corrections, and new names to the year 2000."--BOOK JACKET.
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3 editions- Other · English · 2001University of Toronto Press · 360 pages · 9780802047250
- Other · English · 2001University of Toronto Press · 9781442679337
- Other · English · 1994University of Toronto Press · 271 pages · 9780802005694
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