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Out of Silence: A Journey into Language  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Out of Silence: A Journey into Language - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Out of Silence: A Journey into Language  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Out of Silence: A Journey into Language - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Martin, Russell

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ISBN 13
9780805019988
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New York: Henry Holt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805019987 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Russell Martin explores the world of language and how it has shaped human history. He takes readers on a journey through time, from the first spoken words to the present. Out of Silence is a fascinating exploration of the origins and evolution of language, and a valuable resource for anyone interested in linguistics or history.; 8vo; FSA .

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Russell Martin's Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece That Changed the World is published in hardcover by Dutton and in unabridged audio by Highbridge. He is the author of Beethoven's Hair (2000), a U.S. bestseller and winner of the Colorado Book Award, which has been published in fifteen editions around the world and will soon be the subject of an international television documentary. His highly acclaimed 1994 book, Out of Silence , was named by the Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication.   A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (1989), won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. He also is the author of the novel  Beautiful Islands (1988); The Color Orange: A Super Bowl Season with the Denver Broncos (1987); Matters Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients & the Mysteries of the Brain (1986); Entering Space (co-authored with Joseph P. Allen, 1984), and  Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (1983). He has edited two anthologies of contemporary western writing,  Writers of the Purple Sage (1984) and New Writers of the Purple Sage (1992). He is a graduate of The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where he has returned to teach for eighteen years. He also has taught courses at conferences including Writers@Work and the Desert Writers workshop. He spent a postgraduate year on a Thomas Watson Foundation fellowship in Great Britain and Guatemala and worked as a newspaper reporter in Telluride, Colorado for a number of years before becoming a freelance writer. In 1995, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater. He lives in Denver and Salt Lake City.

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Title
Out of Silence: A Journey into Language - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Martin, Russell
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
0805019987
ISBN 13
9780805019988
Publisher
Henry Holt
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1994
Keywords
Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang

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