Title: The Names of Things: Life, Language, and Beginnings in the Egyptian Desert
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1573226807
ISBN 13: 9781573226806
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 8 ounces

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Susan Brind Morrow takes readers from her magical and sometimes troubled childhood in New York State, to the austere splendors of the Egyptian desert. Written with a keen understanding of language, Brind Morrow traces the routes of ideas and images through word origins and time, bringing forth an inner life of words.

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