A Christmas Cornucopia

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A Christmas Cornucopia

Editorial: Viking

ISBN: 978-02-4126-773-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241267738

Tipo de cubierta: Hardcover

Páginas: 192

Fecha de publicación: 2016-11-03

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

A Christmas Cornucopia

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4197-755-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241977552

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 160

Fecha de publicación: 2016-11-03

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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A Christmas Cornucopia

Mark Forsyth

Primera publicación: 2016-11-03

For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas. We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas was first celebrated on 28 March in 243 AD - and only moved to 25 December in 354 AD. We're oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. We're unaware of the recipe that inspired the Twelve Days of Christmas. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularizing sweet wrappers. Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way.