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title: "The Story of Writing"
brand: "andrew robinson"
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# The Story of Writing

**Brand:** andrew robinson
**Price:** E£ 4736
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Story of Writing by andrew robinson
- **How much does it cost?** E£ 4736 with free shipping
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The Story of Writing

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Many, many photographs, an EXCELLENT book
  

*by I***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023*

Sufficiently complex to survey material, larger font helps wonderfully.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A fine and magnificently illustrated introduction for the generalist
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2015*

While Andrew Robinson's THE STORY OF WRITING may be beneath scholars and serious students of scripts and writing systems, for the rest of us it is a fine introduction.Following an excellent introductory overview of writing in general, there are thirteen chapters.  Representative ones are "Reading the Rosetta Stone"; "Sound, Symbol and Script"; "Cuneiform"; "Mayan Glyphs"; and "Chinese Writing".  Each chapter, in turn, consists of a half dozen or so topics, each of which receives one or two pages.  For example, the chapter on "Undeciphered Scripts" has brief discussions of the following subjects:  the difficulties of decipherment; Indus script; Cretan Linear A (still undeciphered, though Linear B is the earliest European script that we can understand); the Phaistos Disc; proto-Elamite script; Etruscan; and Rongorongo, from Easter Island.The book is copiously, and beautifully, illustrated, with photographs of ancient scripts and inscribed artifacts, as well as charts and maps.  The illustrations and text are well integrated.  The writing itself is ideal for a book of this sort -- neither simplistic nor overly academic.  In addition, the book is carefully and intricately formatted, so much so that it is doubtful that the book could be satisfactorily rendered in digital form (just as Japanese kanji characters defy satisfactory electronic data processing).One theme of the book is that "the way we write at the start of the 3rd millennium AD is not different from the way that the ancient Egyptians wrote".  Another is that phonography is essential to fully developed writing systems:  "full writing cannot be divorced from speech; words, and the scripts that employ words, involve both sounds and signs".THE STORY OF WRITING would be a good addition to any general library.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very worthwhile!
  

*by D***M on Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2022*

Covers many alphabets, etc. with excellent analysis. I learned much and had some corrections to what I thought I knew.

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