
by Frederick Bodmer (Author), Lancelot Thomas Hogben (Editor), Lancelot Thomas Hogben (Editor), Frederick Bodmer (Author)
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.
                        Format:  Paperback
                         Pages: 720
                        Edition: Reprint
                        
                        
                        Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company 
 Published: 17 Oct 1985
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        ISBN 10:  039330034X
 ISBN 13: 9780393300345