Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Reference librarians will be familiar with the wide range of titles published by Scarecrow Press: many have featured in the pages of Reference Reviews. (I am pleased that our strictures on their former drabness have been addressed: the volume reviewed here has a colourful and inviting cover photograph.) With Alan Day's book on Australia, Scarecrow initiate yet another series to add to the 80‐plus already in being, 13 of them alone featuring “Historical Dictionary” in their title. Although not presented as a justification for the new series, Jon Woronoff, the series editor, does make the point that dictionaries of...