Nicholas Evans

A gripping and moving text which explores the wealth of human language diversity, how deeply it matters, and how we can best turn the tide of language endangerment In the new, thoroughly revised second edition of Words of Wonder: Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us, Second Edition (formerly called Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell...

The phenomenal number one bestseller, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1995, and which became a film starring Robert Redford. 'Outstanding . . . a book of rare power and beauty.' Booklist 'Brilliance pervades this five-hankerchief weepie.' The Times In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl...

The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result. Dying Words explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and...

Picts was shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award. The Picts have fascinated historians and enthusiasts for centuries. Emerging around AD 300, they defied the might of the Roman Empire, only to disappear at the end of the first millennium AD. Yet, they left behind significant legacies, including laying the foundations for...

Some years ago, a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay, found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the Moray Firth. The implications for our understanding of this period and for the formation of Scotland are...