Chambers Book of Facts (New and expanded edition)

A fact is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “an action, deed … an exploit, a feat … an evil deed, a crime … something that has really occurred”. So the book under review is supposed to contain over 200,000 things that have really occurred. You will have to excuse the reviewer if he has not counted each one on this occasion and that instead, a few of the facts and figures contained in the work have been closely examined for accuracy. Page 815 informs us of the Formula One World Championship racing drivers since 1985 and these...