An Almanac for Moderns

By Donald C. Peattie and Donald Culross Peattie

Book Overview

An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to "appeal to the ordinary lover of nature . . . but the turn of Peattie's mind is poetic and speculative." The New York Times calls this book "a fine and subtle perception . . . rising at times to an intense lyric beauty . . . a book which the reader will deeply treasure, and to which he will repeatedly return."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595341560
• ISBN13: 9781595341563
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Trinity University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Racist writing

The July fourth entry in the almanac refers to black ants as the negroes of their species because they are the commonest victim of slavery, susceptible to a submissive state. Lazy, random, feckless and witless when free in the bush. This is disgusting, especially from a famous naturalist.