The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts  by Sylvia Ferrara

The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

Sylvia Ferrara with Todd Portnowitz (Translator)

8 hours, 12 minutes first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction education history
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The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentenc...

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