Almanac 2021 - TLC Book Tour

 

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: National Geographic (September 22, 2020)

The essential annual for the 21st century, this high-energy almanac is packed with facts, photos, infographics, time lines, and maps–the perfect stocking stuffer and book to browse all year long. 

 

A guide to the world like no other, this vivid and comprehensive book offers the best of National Geographic and more: science, nature, history, world cultures, geography, and the environment, illustrated with amazing photography, fascinating infographics, and maps created by expert cartographers. Highlights this year include the James Webb telescope, launching in 2021; a brand-new wildflower guide; a guided tour of the moons of our solar system; a beautiful infographic on jellyfish; and a feature on lithium, central to the work of recent Nobel prize-winning chemistry.

Divided into lively chapters including Exploration & Adventure, Life on Earth, and The Science of Us, this year’s almanac features top photos from National Geographic’s celebrated Instagram account and geniuses past and present including Jane Goodall, Amelia Earhart, and acclaimed conservationist Kris Tompkins, dedicated to preserving much of Patagonia.

With new discoveries on every page, this cutting-edge book–called a “category buster” by Booklist–brings you, as Publishers Weekly puts it, “all the things that National Geographic does best.”

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 REVIEW: 

I have been extremely lucky to have been able to review the Almanac the past 2 years.  It is a book I absolutely love, for the myriad of information contained within it's pages.

I am a person that loves all sorts of subjects, and don't really like to stick to just one.  With the Almanac I feel that in one book, I can travel the world and learn about so many different topics.  It's almost like flipping through TV channels.

This is one of those books that would make a brilliant gift for a husband or son.  

Gorgeous photography, a tour of our solar system, tornadoes, the human body, diving the antarctica, the James Webb telescope which looks into folding mirrors, birth of stars and systems and even microshutters.  

There is a really good timeline of the human evolution, neandetherals, ancestors and so forth.

This is a book that you can really get into and never be bored.  And what's best?  This Almanac has quiz masters spread out that ask you questions about the information contained in the different chapters.  It is so neat, and really does make you think.

I have to give it a huge thumbs up again.  I think I'll be adding it to my christmas gift list.

 

Thank you to TLC Book tours and National Geographic for providing me with a review copy.