The Babel MessageA thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point. Keith Kahn Harris is a man obsessed with something seemingly trivial the warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs: 'WARNING, read and keep: Toy not suitable for children under 3 years. Small parts might be swallowed or inhaled.' On a tiny sheet of paper, this message is translated into dozens of languages the world boiled down to a multilingual

and inspires protection and action on behalf of the natural world

Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying

she was met with wide-eyed disbelief

But when the principle witness is murdered

and the Brittany Coast in France

Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him 20 years earlier

We are introduced to discoverers and inventions

The story she tells is terrifying

These three classic stories feature Julian

In the run-up to Christmas

and celebrate

but about what our environment has done to us