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Reading the World - How I Read a Book from Every Country (Paperback)
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Reading the World - How I Read a Book from Every Country (Paperback)
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List price R240
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'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate,
challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world
arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to
meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent
countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It
wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into
English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is
written down; some governments don't like to let works of art
escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point,
Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how
reading across borders might just help us answer them.
'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there
is a simple message: reading is a social activity, and we ought to
share books across boundaries' Financial Times
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