A History of Reading Author:Steven Roger Fischer of the three volumes in Steven Roger Fischer's hugely ambitious and sedulously executed trilogy, the first two dealt with language and writing. This one, however, is the most suggestive and open, dedicated not only to the everyday experience of communication...Fischer lets his historical readers speak for themselves, ...starting from the bronze... more » age and ending with modern e-mails and a possible future of e-books...Fischer is Director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, New Zealand. Part of the 'globalities' series.« less