Ebook: Bastard tongues: a trailblazing linguist finds clues to our common humanity in the world's lowliest languages

Becoming a linguist -- Grappling with Guyana -- A different kind of system -- Colombia before cocaine -- The road to the isles -- Under the rainbow -- From pidgin to Creole -- The forbidden experiment -- After the island -- The infernal machine -- Surinam : the crucible -- Seychelles and serials -- Hawaii's hidden history -- Coda.