Sign, Symbol and Script
By Hans Jensen.
Description
Man has been called the talking animal -- but he is also a writing one. From all over the world explorers, anthropologists and archaeologists have collected the evidence: an inscription perhaps, high up on a rock face in Persia, cylinder-seals unearthed at Mohenjo-Daro, or the mysterious rongo-rongo tablets found on Easter Island; not to mention the countless written remains, Semitic, Greek and Roman, of our own European heritage. In Sign, Symbol and Script this material has been shaped into a fluent account of all the known ways in which man has tried to write. After dealing with the b...
ISBN(s)
0044000219, 9780044000211
