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A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions by Mark Forsyth (Hardcover, 2016)

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Author: Mark Forsyth ISBN 10: 0241267730. Title: A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide T Item Condition: New. Used-like N : The book pretty much look like a new book. There will be no stains or markings on the book, the cover is clean and crisp, the book will look unread, the only marks there may be are slight bumping marks to the edges of the book where it may have been on a shelf previously.

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The curious origins and meanings of our cracking Christmas customs 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.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD

ISBN-139780241267738

eBay Product ID (ePID)227375637

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Book TitleA Christmas Cornucopia: the Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions

Publication Year2016

TypeReference

FormatHardcover

LanguageEnglish

AuthorMark Forsyth

TopicWriting & Reading, History, Trivia

Number of Pages192 Pages

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Item Height187 mm

Item Weight219 g

Item Width120 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorMark Forsyth

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by gulliver1195
30 Mar, 2017
Left field and fascinating
As something of a Christmas history fan, I was interested to know from which angle this recommended little gem was written, as there have been so many others containing hugely conflicting origin theories. The result is: honesty. The answers to so many questions have been lost in the annals of time and the author takes the refreshingly genuine approach of telling you why it isnt possible to answer, but especially how he has done the hard work for you and why you shouldn't really bother investigating further and could easily spend your life doing something more useful (even though he gives you the means to follow up as much as you like). I found the approach delightfully left field and not at all cynical - more a reality check from someone who is clearly as interested in the subject as I am. What is researchable appears to have been done thoroughly, and what is myth seems to have been exposed as such, regardless of how that may break a cosy notion of tradition. Witty, healthily irreverent and charming in it's obvious love for the season, this is an excellent, if not too time-consuming, read for anyone interested in the whats and the whys, but not necessarily the hows of what is still a huge modern day story.
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by carp-431
24 Nov, 2023
A great deal
The book is excellent quality, just like new. It was a third of the price of the new version we had seen. What’s not to like
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by kaken_47
22 Dec, 2021
All you need to know about Christmas!
A fascinating read!
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