The Christmas Pocket Bible: The perfect christmas gift or guide to prepare for the fesitivites: Every Christmas Rule of Thumb at Your Fingertips (Pocket Bibles) - Hardcover

Guy Hobbs; Steve Hobbs

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907087001 ISBN 13: 9781907087004

Publisher: Pocket Bibles, 2009

Synopsis

Christmas is a special time to spend with friends and loved ones. Yet all too often the pressure to have a wonderful time outweighs the fun. The Christmas Pocket Bible helps you take control of your festive activities as you plan your best Christmas ever. This handy book is crammed with answers to everything that matters for this festive period, the stories behind Christmas traditions and fascinating Christmas trivia, including: · Tips for a thrifty Christmas · Preparing and cooking fabulous Christmas feast · The best wines for Christmas lunch · Everything you ever wanted to know about mistletoe · Creative, inexpensive ways to decorate your home · The words to popular carols · The tradition of Boxing Day · New Year’s Day traditions & Auld Lang Syne

This beautiful hardback edition has both dust-cover and gold embossing on the spine making it the perfect gift. Every Pocket Bible is lovingly crafted to give you a unique mix of useful references, handy tips and fascinating trivia that will enlighten and entertain you at every page. There is a Pocket Bible for everyone...

Other titles in the series: The Baking Pocket Bible, The Dad's Pocket Bible, The Rugby Pocket Bible, The Railway Pocket Bible and The Gardener's Pocket Bible.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Did you know an original 12th-century mince pie could weigh up to 100kg? And were you aware that kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Norse myth, thousands of years older than Christianity itself? Perhaps you have always wondered why we celebrate Christmas when we do? If so, The Christmas Pocket Bible is for you.

For many of us, Christmas is an annual holiday of overconsumption, family tension and frantic last-minute shopping that we have come to take for granted. In some 800million family homes around the world, Christmas has become an annual celebration that crosses cultures and religions.

It is one of the oldest holidays mankind has and a multi-billion pound global industry has grown up around servicing our annual Christmas needs. Yet every year we go through the same routines and customs of overeating, dressing the tree and hanging out our stockings on Christmas Eve without ever wondering `Why?' Is it possible that somewhere along the line the true meanings behind our modern Christmas traditions have been lost in a flurry of wrapping paper and cracker hats?

This book is intended to redress that balance. Packed with facts, trivia, recipes and helpful advice, The Christmas Pocket Bible contains everything you need to know to become a Christmas expert. From making your own Christmas pudding to throwing the perfect festive bash, we hope that in these pages you will find the answers to all your Christmas queries, plus a feast of helpful tips guaranteed to put the pop into your Yuletide popularity.

You will also find here the real stories that go to make up our modern Christmas traditions, from the ancient Roman feast of Saturnalia to the invention of our very own Santa Claus, while all the time never forgetting the birth of one Jesus Christ, of course.

Untangling the myths, legends and dogma that go to make up this most ancient of feasts, we have tried here to put Christmas into both a historical and traditional context, while at the same time remaining faithful to the true reason for the season.

We hope that the result is a useful and comprehensive reference guide to all things Christmas and that this book will become as much a part of your annual holidays as cold turkey sandwiches and mince pies. Merry Christmas one and all.

Book Description:

Beautiful and handy Christmas tips book

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Bibles
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1907087001
• ISBN 13: 9781907087004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192