Lesperit de catalonia josep trueta biography

Publica un comentari a l'entrada. Cercar en aquest blog. Compte enrere. The advertised website is no longer accessible, but the PDF version of the book is. Click here if need be, to view the rest of the post. This year VilaWeb commemorates September 11 with the publication of a digital version of Dr. Josep Trueta's book 'The Spirit of Catalonia'.

The book was originally published in in England by the prestigious Oxford University Press publishing house. The digitization of the book has been possible thanks to the help of the Trueta family since the original in English language is hard to come by.

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Fifteen editions have since been published of the version in Catalan. In he published in England 'The Spirit of Catalonia', a book intended to put Catalonia on the international map during the troubled years of the postwar period. The book denounces the situation of Catalonia under Franco's oppression and reviews the history of Catalonia, presenting it in plain language to the Anglo-Saxon public.

The Trueta family and VilaWeb have thought that given that this was a book was written to reach out to the greatest number of possible readers around the globe, with the aim of publicizing the Catalan reality, there was now a need for it to be present in complete form on the Internet. The digital edition of 'The Spirit of Catalonia' can be downloaded in full or chapter by chapter, in pdf format and free of charge.

It is accompanied by a photographic album and a biography of the author.