Gaston Dorren

Gebundenes Buch

Babel

Around the World in Twenty Languages

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780802128799
• ISBN-10: 0802128793
• Artikelnr.: 50208074

Rezensionen

Eye-opening and thoroughly entertaining ... [Dorren] is wonderful company: chatty, informative, enthusiastic. Laura Freeman The Times