Andrew Robinson: Lost Languages | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780500288160 | Lost Languages | The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts | Buch

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Beschreibung

Investigates famous examples of unsolved scripts and codes, in an account that recalls the stories of three forefront decipherments including the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets before sharing the stories of such uncracked codes as the Indus script, the Etruscan language, and the Rongorongo script. Reprint.

Über den Autor

Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as 'an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book', and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft , Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780500288160
ISBN-10:	050028816X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Robinson, Andrew
Hersteller:	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	232 x 188 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.02.2009
Gewicht:	1,102 kg