An inspiring journey through the alphabet of classical heroes.

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This is the tenth book and final collection of four stories in this wonderful series of animal adventure tales. Learn how many uses and meanings the letter X can have and tremble with a wild captured little yak as he yearns for freedom and home. Then finally, sneeze with Yakkidy as he migrates across the African plains to greener pastures. There are horrifying dangers he must face to get there, and he becomes the most famous zebra there ever was.

Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.

An inspiring journey through the alphabet of classical heroes.

A creative guide to over 5000 alphabet books with activities, games, and projects that can be used with ABC books.