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Babel
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Babel

Around the World in Twenty Languages
PaperbackPaperback
EUR17,50

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From the celebrated author of Lingo, a whistle-stop tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages, exploring history, geography, linguistics, and culture-showing how the language we speak reflects our view of the world
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8021-4780-6
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date17/12/2019
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 138 mm, Height 215 mm, Thickness 27 mm
Weight377 g
Article no.21280199
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A35689265
Product groupBU561
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Gaston Dorren is a linguist, journalist, and polyglot. He speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German, French, and Spanish, and reads nine more languages. He is the author of Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages, as well as two books in Dutch and the app, The Language Lover's Guide to Europe. Dorren lives in the Netherlands.

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