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True stories & other essays /

"Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship bet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spufford, Francis, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cold. Winter night
  • Ice
  • Worst journey
  • Shackleton
  • Read my toes
  • Borealism
  • Huntford's Nansen, Huntford's Scott
  • The uses of Antarctica
  • Red. Siberian journal
  • The Soviet moment
  • Plenty
  • Responsible fiction, irresponsible fact
  • Idols of the marketplace
  • Unicorn husbandry
  • Sacred. Dear atheists
  • Contra Dawkins
  • Puritans
  • Who is God? An answer for children
  • C.S. Lewis as apologist
  • What can science fiction tell us about God?
  • Uneasy in Iran
  • Wild theism
  • The past as zombie hazard, and consolation
  • Three ways of writing faith
  • Unapologetically yours (1)
  • Unapologetically yours (2)
  • Technical. Difference engine
  • Boffins
  • Printed. Half in praise
  • Kipling's jungle
  • Robinson's Mars
  • The amazing Terence
  • You could read forever
  • This grand cause of terror
  • Bats of some kind
  • In memoriam, Iain M. Banks
  • The dyer's elbow.