Simon Winchester

Com tres seculos de atraso em relacao aos vizinhos europeus, que possuiam livros e instituicoes dedicadas a filologia desde o seculo xvi, nascia na Inglaterra, em 1857, a ideia de um dicionario que abrangesse a lingua como um todo. O Oxford English Dictionary descreveria todas as palavras anglo-saxonicas, alem das …

Outposts, Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the British Empire and was first published in 1985 under the title The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire. It was …