Esther Schor: Bridge of Words [2016] hardback Condition:New One of the BBC's '100

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'

Thomas Weaver was an accomplished engineer and geologist who was successfully managing Avoca's main copper mine and had brought order to the nearby gold workings

With help from her new-found Italian friends - and the possibility of romance on the horizon - can she make her new life in the sun a success

It would have been such a suitable marriage

I never understood that connection until I sat down to write

Esther Schor: Bridge of Words [2016] hardback Condition:New One of the BBC's '100In 1887, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish Jew, had the idea of putting an end to tribalism by creating a universal language, one that would be equally accessible to everyone in the world. The result was Esperanto, a utopian scheme full of the brilliance, craziness, and grandiosity that characterize all such messianic visions. In this first full history of a constructed language, poet and scholar Esther Schor traces the life of Esperanto. She follows