An Almanac for Moderns (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Culross Peattie
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Essays on Nature arranged by days and seasons
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Nature writing
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Nature, Life, philosophy of, Animals, Naturalists, Plants, Evolution, Biology or biologists
Critical Evaluation:
AN ALMANAC FOR MODERNS is a collection of essays on Nature entered journal-fashion, one for each day of the year. Some of the essays are complete on a single page, while others run on for several pages. At the time the book was being written, Peattie was living in Illinois, at the childhood home of his wife. Like Gilbert White, he has written a natural history of his own American Selborne, but unlike White, he observes Nature with the eye of a trained scientist, bringing into his book the accumulated scientific knowledge of the twentieth century. It...
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