George R. Stewart is great.
He wasn’t a science fiction author.
He was a UC Berkeley professor who studied history and what’s called toponymy, which is how places got their names.
He wrote Names on the land : a historical account of place-naming in the United States, which is fascinating US history.
I will try to find that. I did not know.
His book gave my spouse and me some interesting conversations around the woodstove 50 years ago
He has several other books too! Did not know. Thanks!