The Mother Tongue
Book Details
Author(s)Bill Bryson
PublisherHarperAudio
ISBN / ASINB014VDA45C
ISBN-13978B014VDA456
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1-2 business days
Sales Rank5,093
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson - the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent - brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't) to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.










