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The World in So Many Words : A Country-by-Country Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language (Multilingual)
The World in So Many Words A CountrybyCountry Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language - Multilingual
Author: Allan Metcalf
"Biblically speaking, the first paradise was the Garden of Eden. But linguistically speaking, it was a Persian amusement park. Or, more precisely, it was the walled park of a Persian ruler or noble, observed more than two thousand years ago by a young Greek named Xenophon." Allan A. Metcalf shows us paradise and a whole lot more in his whirlwind...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780395959206
ISBN-10: 0395959209
Publication Date: 9/20/1999
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
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