The Adventure of English

The Adventure of English (Unabridged), Melvyn Bragg

Narrator: Robert Powell
Program Format: Unabridged
BBC WW, 2005

Audio Length: 12 hours and 12 min.

What the Critics Say
"Both entertaining and informative." (Booklist)
"This 'biography' succeeds in its broad, sweeping narrative." (Publishers Weekly)

Publisher's Summary

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

©2003 Melvyn Bragg; (P)2004 BBC Audiobooks Ltd