From an acclaimed linguist, “part travelogue, part memoir, and part meditation on the intellectual and emotional underpinnings of language. . . . Priceless.�

A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the hi

BL A cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large BL Authors considered include Wor

During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.