“‘Another almanac?’ you may ask. Not quite. Not really. An almanac, yes, but not the kind that you’ve known all you life or that your ancestors grew up with.” (x)
The People’s Almanac, originally published in 1975, is a compilation of ‘facts and figures’ across time and subject. Whether history, science, technology, health, humanities, or religion, Wallace enumerates noteworthy subjects. The variety of contents include titles such as Unsealing the Time Capsule, Spaced Out, On the Road, All in Sport, and The Unknown and Mysterious.
To highlight the range of ‘facts and figures’ here are excerpts from the book…
1. Clyde Barrow, norotiously part of the duo of Bonnie and Clyde, perferred Fords because of the speed and gas milage.
2. Atlantis, an island continent, written about by Plato in the 4th century B.C., was supposedly destroyed by an earthquake that plunged it beneath the sea.
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley, know for the poems Queen Mab and Prometheus Unbound, was also known as a revoluntionary, an athetist, and a vegetarian.
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