Biography - MacNeil, Robert (Breckenridge Ware) (1931-): ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 12 Publication Date: 2002-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Wordstruck: A Memoir
Amazon.com Review: People become writers, in large part, because they are in love with language. Wordstruck is the story of one such writer's unabashed affair with words, from his Halifax childhood awash with intriguing accents to life as a traveling [... more]
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The Story of English
Angles and Saxons and Jutes, Oh My!: This book first appeared in 1986 in connection with a British TV series run in the US on PBS. While I've not seen the TV shows, the book at first take reads like a transcript, focussing in on particular individuals to [... more]
$24.95
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The Voyage
Beautifully Evocative: I read "The Voyage" in two days. This is one of those books that causes you to creep off into a corner to read, hoping your family won't come looking for you. I thoroughly enjoyed every page. Four elements combine to make [... more]
$23.95
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Looking for My Country
Author: ROBERT MACNEIL Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2008-12-17 Release Date: 2008-12-17 [... more]
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Breaking News (Harvest Book)
Amazon.com Review: When he looks in the mirror, Grant Munro is no longer sure what he sees. Is he gazing upon a celebrated journalist and anchor man or an aging icon who should step aside and let the younger generation take over? This question is at the [... more]
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The Story of English: Revised Edition
Angles and Saxons and Jutes, Oh My!: This book first appeared in 1986 in connection with a British TV series run in the US on PBS. While I've not seen the TV shows, the book at first take reads like a transcript, focussing in on particular individuals to [... more]
$24.95
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Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America
A Long Search For The Place Called Home: To some degree, we are all products of place...even those of us who spend significant portions of our lives moving from one place to another. In this slim volume, veteran journalist Robert MacNeil recounts his [... more]
$25.00
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Wordstruck
Amazon.com Review: People become writers, in large part, because they are in love with language. Wordstruck is the story of one such writer's unabashed affair with words, from his Halifax childhood awash with intriguing accents to life as a traveling [... more]
$12.95
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Do You Speak American?
an excellent, excellent book!... substantiated... current... upbeat...: I read this book because I am fascinated by words and dialects and how (some) linguistics experts can tell where you grew up just from the way you speak. "Do You Speak American& [... more]
$13.00
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Burden of Desire (Harvest Book)
captivating!: This book is truly captivating. I realized half-way through the book that there were only a couple of possible endings and found myself desperately wanting one over the other, probably because I had become so enmeshed in the lives of these [... more]
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Do You Speak American?
an excellent, excellent book!... substantiated... current... upbeat...: I read this book because I am fascinated by words and dialects and how (some) linguistics experts can tell where you grew up just from the way you speak. "Do You Speak American& [... more]
$23.95
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