The Kingdom of Speech
By
Tom Wolfe
Read by
Robert Petkoff
Release:
08/30/2016
Release:
08/30/2016
Runtime:
4h 39m
Quantity:
“Narrator Robert Petkoff’s bright and energetic delivery reflects the author’s well-known penetrating intelligence and curiosity, here matched with a dose of exasperation as he traces the history of disproven theories on language development and acquisition…Petkoff switches from a tone of satire to wonder at what a singular species we humans are—while having little idea how we got that way.”
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A Harper’s Bazaar Pick
A New York Times Bestseller
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
Release:
2016-08-30
2016-08-30
Runtime:
Runtime:
4h 39m
4h 39m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.45 lb
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781478953166
9781478953173
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