Write around the World: The Story of How and Why We Learned to Write |  | Authors: Vivian French, Ross Collins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.00
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Seller: dailybooksales
Sales Rank: 3,532,761
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 11.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0195219244
EAN: 9780195219241
Publication Date: December 5, 2002
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Product Description
In this lively history of writing, six goofy birds -- a penguin, two toucans, an owl, and two chickens -- team up to tour the world of writing: how it developed, where alphabets came from, and the origins of international languages such as Latin, Esperanto, and Morse Code, and much more. They begin their time-traveling journey in 4,000 B.C.E. with the Sumerians, who invented pictograms out of the necessity to keep trading records. One of the toucans flies on a kite tail to China to learn about characters, the penguin walks like an Egyptian in full headdress across the desert sands to uncover hieroglyphs, and then there's a mad rush of characters who pass the idea of an alphabet around Europe and the Near East. Delightfully illustrated in full color, Write Around the World includes light-hearted and informative sections on the world's alphabets, languages, handwriting, calligraphy, typefaces and punctuation, icons, and secret codes as well as a glossary of important words.
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