Steven Roger Fischer is Director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Glyph-breaker (1997). A History of Writing is part of Fischer's trilogy for Reaktion, which also includes A History of Language and A History of Reading.
"[It] is wonderful . . . to see a subject that embraces so much of
human civilisation handled with the wide knowledge and breadth of
vision it deserves."-- "Nature"
"If you're intrigued by writing's past, Fischer's book is well
worth a read. . . . brilliant."--New Scientist
-- "New Scientist"
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