Allan A. Metcalf shows us paradise and a whole lot more in his whirlwindd tour of languages that have made contributions to our own. Starting in Europe, the original home of English, he takes us around the world country by country, language by language. We see a geyser in Iceland, take a siesta in Spain, and receive justice in Italy. He takes us to northern India, where we seek the elusive goat antelope called the serow; to icy Tibet, where the even more elusive yeti dwells unseen among the rocks; to Tahiti, where we got our first tattoo; to Samoa, where we are shown how to cover it up with a lavalava. We encounter buccaneers from Brazil and Paraguay, caciques from Guyana and Surinam, bunyips from Australia, and zombies from Congo. As experienced on Metcalf's tour, the English language is more wonderful and exotic than you've ever imagined -- a truly multicultural language for a multicultural world.