BY HOOK OR BY CROOK David Crystal - A Journey In Search of English (Britain)

By Hook or By Crook is a UK. linguistic travelogue.

This is a used book in very good condition: clean and lightly read; pages are nice and clean and aging lightly. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language. David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of 'latter day Dr Johnson', a populist linguist who has promoted the study of the English language in an academic and broadcasting career that has so far spanned 40 years and nearly 100 books. Now, in his first book for Harper Press, he has written an engaging travel book of more general appeal. Inspired by W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn' and by Bill Bryson's books, he has combined personal reflections, historical allusions and traveller observations to create a mesmerising (and entertaining) narrative account of his encounters with the English language and its speakers throughout the world — from Bangor to Bombay and from Stratford to San Francisco. 'By Hook or by Crook' is an attempt to capture the exploratory, seductive, teasing, tantalising nature of language study. As such, it will appeal to the ever — growing market who like to be entertained as well as instructed.

Book Details

Code: SKU1746

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 314

Published: 2007 by Harper Collins, UK

ISBN: 0007255020

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