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The Adventure Of English : The Biography of a Language, Paperback / softback Book

The Adventure Of English : The Biography of a Language Paperback / softback

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'Melvyn Bragg's superb new history of the English language is told as an adventure story, and rightly so.

There is much splendid intellectual firepower in this book.' Andrew Roberts, SpectatorEnglish is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages.

It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures.

English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world.

Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. 'Always readable, often thought-provoking and consistently entertaining.' IndependentIn this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language.

THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

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