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Robert Claiborne
Author · 5 books
Robert Watson Claiborne, Jr. (1919–1990) American folk singer, labor organizer and writer. He wrote primarily about science and linguistics.

Series

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The Emergence of Man
Series · 17 books
By Jonathan Norton Leonard, Jim Hicks, Tom Prideaux, and more

Books

The Roots of English book cover

The Roots of English

A Reader's Handbook of Word Origins

1989

Word Mysteries and Histories book cover

Word Mysteries and Histories

1986

Our Marvelous Native Tongue book cover

Our Marvelous Native Tongue

1983

The Birth of Writing book cover

The Birth of Writing

1974

Loose Cannons and Red Herrings book cover

Loose Cannons and Red Herrings

A Book of Lost Metaphors

1988

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