The Salmon of Doubt
Subtitle: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780345484499
First sentence: This Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition is a highly significant one in the history of Introductions. Its presence on these pages means that this book has achieved the World Record for the Number of Introductions in a Book of This Nature. With the addition of this Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition, The Salmon of Doubt can now claim to have no less than three Introductions, one Prologue, and one Editor’s Note. That is two Introductions more than Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and one Introduction, one Prologue, and one Editor’s Note more than The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Even the Oxford English Dictionary can only boast one Preface, one Historical Introduction, one General Explanations, and a List of Abbreviations—that’s two Introductions short of The Salmon of Doubt.