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    Oceanic Voices - European Quills: The Early Documents on and in Chamorro and Rapanui

    Celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. This book features a collection of articles that reveal the fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui…

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    A History of Language

    Steven Roger Fischer

    A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguistics was developed and analyses the…

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    History of Writing

    Steven Roger Fischer

    From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing…

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    A History of Reading

    Steven Roger Fischer

    Traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbols first became signs through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading and the…

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    Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island

    Steven Roger Fischer

    Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c AD 700. Centuries later the island’s statues were famous…

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    A History of Reading

    Steven Roger Fischer

    Describing ancient forms of reading and the various modes that were necessary to read different writing systems and scripts, the author turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the…

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    A History of the Pacific Islands

    Steven Roger Fischer

    Steven Fischer traces the human history of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day. The second edition has been revised throughout in the light of recent…

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    A History of the Pacific Islands

    Steven Roger Fischer

    This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history.

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    Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text

    Steven R. Fischer

    Documents Easter Island’s enigmatic script, Rongorongo, Oceania’s only known pre-20th-century writing system. This study of this eloquent graphic achievement shows full transcriptions of all the 25 surviving Rongorongo inscriptions, with…

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    A History of Writing

    Steven R. Fischer

    From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, this title offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the…

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