
The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson
Aims to demystify writing for the general reader. This book explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, and follows the discovery of writing forms from cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of Japan today.Andrew Robinson is the author of over a dozen publications, including numerous critically praised works on Rabindranath Tagore (co-authored with Krishna Dutta) and the editor of three Satyajit Ray screenplays. He is The Times Higher Education Supplement's literary editor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500016657 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500016658 |
| Title | The Story of Writing |
| Author | Andrew Robinson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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