num_pages: 230
description: Susan Brind Morrow takes readers from her magical and sometimes troubled childhood in New York State, to the austere splendors of the Egyptian desert. Written with a keen understanding of language, Brind Morrow traces the routes of ideas and images through word origins and time, bringing forth an inner life of words.
language: English
title: The Names of Things
titlecomplete: The Names of Things
genres: Anthropology, Memoir, Travel, Language, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 190
publisher: Riverhead Books