The Greatest Invention : A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts LimitedStock seesawing between sexual and religious

seesawing between sexual and religious obsessions

Vividly evoking the post-war era

often outrageously funny

As Alexander McCall Smith says in his inspirational foreword

One of the greatest travel classics from one of Britain's best-loved travel writers

The Greatest Invention : A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts LimitedStock seesawing between sexual and religiousAuthor(s): N A Binding: Other, Date of Publication: 01 01 1800, Pagination: , ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781529064780, Description: 'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' The SpectatorThis book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning in fact, it