The Adventure of English - by Melvyn Bragg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Best Seller!</b> <p/>Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war--against a hoard of invaders, all armed with their own conquering languages, which bit by bit, the speakers of English absorbed and made their own. <p/> Along the way, its colorful story takes in a host of remarkable people, places, and events: the Norman invasion of England in 1066; the arrival of <i>The Canterbury Tales</i> and a "coarse" playwright named William Shakespeare, who added 2,000 words to the language; the songs of slaves; the words of Davy Crockett; and the Lewis and Clark expedition, which led to hundreds of new words as the explorers discovered unknown flora and fauna. <i>The Adventure of English</i> is an enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade, but also of a people and how they changed the world.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Superb. . . . Inspiring."--<i>Newsday</i>. "A captivating history."--<i>The Daily Telegraph.</i> "A thorough and incredibly enjoyable trip down a linguistic memory lane."--<i>Bloomsbury Review</i></b> <p/>Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war--against a hoard of invaders, all armed with their own conquering languages, which bit by bit, the speakers of English absorbed and made their own. <p/>Along the way, its colorful story takes in a host of remarkable people, places, and events: the Norman invasion of England in 1066; the arrival of <i>The Canterbury Tales</i> and a "coarse" playwright named William Shakespeare, who added 2,000 words to the language; the songs of slaves; the words of Davy Crockett; and the Lewis and Clark expedition, which led to hundreds of new words as the explorers discovered unknown flora and fauna. <p/><i>The Adventure of English</i> is an enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade, but also of a people and how they changed the world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A captivating history.<br><br>A thorough and incredibly enjoyable trip down a linguistic memory lane.<br><br>Superb. . . . Inspiring.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Melvyn Bragg</b> is a writer and broadcaster and the author of numerous novels, including the trilogy <i>The Soldier's Return</i>, <i>A Son of War</i>, and <i>Crossing the Lines</i>, published by Arcade. He has won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the WHS Smith Literary Award, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including <i>The Book of Books</i> about the King James Bible, and <i>The Adventures of English</i>, also published by Arcade. He lives in London and Cumbria.
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