An Almanac for Moderns |
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| Author:
| Peattie, Donald Culross |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59534-157-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Trinity University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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.”