Explains the "true" meanings of the names of American towns, meanings based solely on the sounds of the name, as "Chicago: the foul-smelling wind preceding an underground railway train"
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About the Author:
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
John Lloyd is one of the most successful television comedy producers of all time, having been responsible for Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, QI and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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- PublisherOutlet
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0517553473
- ISBN 13 9780517553473
- BindingHardcover
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