Babel FD25 Cairns & the Queensland Coast

Cairns & the Queensland Coast Lonely Planet’s Experience East Coast Australia is an essential travel guide for all explorers looking to immerse themselves in the region’s culture

Her desperate family tried everything to help her but she slipped further away from them

The small but feisty heroine

tasty and easy recipes all steeped in nutritional science

' Jo Wiley

Babel FD25 Cairns & the Queensland CoastIf you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues? Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse lingua francas, tracing their origins and their sometimes bloody rise to greatness. He deciphers their bewildering array of scripts, presents the