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Can I read The Unknown Unknown : Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted on EtoBox?
The Unknown Unknown : Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted by Mark Forsyth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Unknown Unknown : Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted about?
Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop. Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing - what you never knew you were looking for.
Who reads The Unknown Unknown : Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Forsyth
- Publisher
- Icon Books, Limited
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781848317840
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Business, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (410 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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