I'm a sucker for words; especially unusual words, or foreign-language words that have no straight translation into English, and the beauty of this book's cover made it impossible to resist it, even though I already have similar books. Luckily this small but beautifully illustrated collection of wo...
Redamancy my personal fav.Also mbuki-mvuki, l'appel du vide, Erlebnisse, Fernweh, hiraeth and nemophilist.This world needs to remember that languages are things of beauty, paths to mind-building and quintessentially ways of life and not just instruments for business and general use.
A picture book for adults who like words, sweet and charming and introduced me to words I never knew.
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