Babel
Around the World in Twenty Languages
Published on 17. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-8021-4780-6 (ISBN)
Description
From the celebrated author of Lingo, a whistle-stop tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages, exploring history, geography, linguistics, and culture-showing how the language we speak reflects our view of the world
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-4780-6 (9780802147806)
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Person
Gaston Dorren is a linguist, journalist, and polyglot. He speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German, French, and Spanish, and reads nine more languages. He is the author of Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages, as well as two books in Dutch and the app, The Language Lover's Guide to Europe. Dorren lives in the Netherlands.