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304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780735239586
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Publication date: 28 July 2020
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I have learned many words for ‘island’: isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water....
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304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780735239586
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Publication date: 28 July 2020
Description
I have learned many words for ‘island’: isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water....
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