Review
'Succinct and absorbing' --Education Today
'Excellent. Robinson covers so much ground in such short order that you feel he must have got something wrong or left out something important. He hasn't'
--Bookdealer
'Excellent. Robinson covers so much ground in such short order that you feel he must have got something wrong or left out something important. He hasn't'
--Bookdealer
Product Description
Writing is one of humanitys greatest inventions.Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated text, Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan. An invaluable guide to the worlds major writing systems, The Story of Writing is a book to read for both pleasure and enlightenment.
About the Author
Andrew Robinson is the Literary Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He is the author of numerous books, including The Man Who Deciphered Linear B and Earthshock, both published by Thames & Hudson.
