As one who measures the year by more than one calendar, I often find my attention piqued when presented with methods of doing so from the past with which I was previously unfamiliar. Such was recently the case when, whilst listening to the History Extra podcast, I found myself wholly enrapt with Dr. Eleanor Parker’s presentation of her recently published book “Winters in the World; A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year.”
As he not uncommonly does, Mark Avery published not one but two Sunday book reviews this week. In his second review for the week, he looks forward to Lev Parikian’s forthcoming “Light Rains Sometimes Fall: a British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons,” scheduled to be published this coming September by Elliott & Thompson.