The Story of Spanish

A rich linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe, from the authors of The Story of French, who "do an excellent job of transforming it into an accessible and lively narrative" (Los Angeles Times).

Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau a...