In "Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language," Schor chronicles the history of the language that Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof gave to the world in 1887, while also detailing her own encounters with Esperantists in California, Turkey, Poland, Vietnam, Cuba and Brazil. The book is a tad fragmented in character as it alternates between Esperanto's convoluted story (so many schisms! so many rivalries!) and Schor's own account of the passionate or eccentric Esperantists who cross her path.