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The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
National Geographic
October 2010
On Sale: September 21, 2010
304 pages ISBN: 1426204612 EAN: 9781426204616 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last
Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David
Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last
speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent
reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known
lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach
disappearing languages to younger generations.
Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates
the global language-extinction crisis through photos,
graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before
translated into English, and first-person essays that
thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration.
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