Title: This textbook is a good reader, but not the best reference.
Review: This recent offering in the field of Esperanto textbooks for English speakers tries to fill many roles. It gives a history of the language from its introduction in 1887 to the late 1980's. It also has a textbook for learning the language and a small, but good dictionary. Perhaps its greatest strength is that it combines these other elements with a selection of short readings. If you are only going to buy one textbook on Esperanto then Teach Yourself Esperanto or Step By Step In Esperanto would be a more complete choice. However, you should strongly consider this book as a second one to complement either of those.
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