Arcade Publishing, 2011. 322 p. An excellent complement to the audiobook and the series. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world....
NY: Arcade Publishing, 2011. 322 p. An excellent complement to the audiobook and the series. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world....
NY: Arcade Publishing, 2011. 322 p. An excellent complement to the audiobook and the series. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world....
Arcade Publishing, 2006. Subtitled the Biography of a Language, this brilliant book traces the development of the English language from it's earliest days as a dialect of an obscure tribe in northern Europe to its current day status as global language. Bragg is excellent at weaving the history of the language in with all the strands of history around it. He traces for example...
Bragg Melvyn. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. NY: Arcade Publishing, 2011. 322 p. An excellent complement to the audiobook and the series. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this...