Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by John McWhorter

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Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet

John McWhorter

Audiobook edition 6h 18m audio 2023

2 editions

nonfiction history sociology
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 The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the development of writing and literacy are in the span of human history. But writing is, in fact, a very recent phenomenon if we take a step back and lo...

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