Write Around the World: The Story of How and Why We Learnt to Write - Couverture rigide

French, Vivian; Collins, Ross

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840890258 ISBN 13 : 9781840890259

Editeur : Kingfisher, 1998

Synopsis

Book by French Vivian Collins Ross

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this lively history of writing, six goofy birds - a penguin, two toucans, an owl and two chickens - team up to tour the world of writing: how it developed, where alphabets came from, and the origins of international languages such as Latin, Esperanto and Morse Code. They begin their time-travelling journey in 4000 BCE with the Sumerians, who invented pictograms out of the necessity to keep trading records. One of the toucans flies on a kite tail to China to learn about characters, the penguin walks like an Egyptian in full headdress across the desert sands to uncover hieroglyphs, and then there's a mad rush of characters who pass the idea of an alphabet around Europe and the Near East. Illustrated in full colour, "Write Around the World" includes light-hearted and informative sections on the world's alphabets, languages, handwriting, calligraphy, typefaces and punctuation, icons, and secret codes as well as a glossary of important words.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kingfisher
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840890258
• ISBN 13: 9781840890259
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Collins Ross
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible