Author

Robert Claiborne

10 books

Books

  1. Our Marvelous Native Tongue 1983
9 more
  1. Saying what you mean 1986
  2. The Roots of English 1989
  3. Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors 1988
  4. The Birth of Writing (The Emergence of Man Series) 1974
  5. Loose Cannons and Red Herrings 1988
  6. The summer stargazer 1975
  7. God or beast 1974
  8. Climate, man and history 1970
  9. The First Americans (The Emergence of Man) 1973

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