An Almanac for Moderns

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.