Francis Spufford

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Fairy tales and Where the Wild Things Are, The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books, Little House on the Prairie and The Earthsea Trilogy. What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discov...

Fecha de publicación: 2010 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the British imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Everyone remembers the last words of Scott's ...

Fecha de publicación: 2011 PERMISOS Impresión: No - Copia: No IDIOMA: INGLÉS Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition ...