Dark Skies
A Journey into the Wild Night
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 3 September 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472964601
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 196x130x22 mm
- Weight 224 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 hand-drawn black and white chapter illustrations 42
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Long description:
Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis-Baker travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity's connection to the night sky.
For a year, Tiffany travels through different nightscapes across the UK and beyond. She experiences 24-hour daylight while swimming in the Gulf of Finland and visits Norway to witness the Northern Lights and speak to people who live in darkness for three months each year. She hikes through the haunted yew forests of Kingley Vale and embarks on a nocturnal sail down the River Dart.
As she travels, Tiffany explores how our relationship with darkness and the night sky has changed over time. In this personal and beautifully written nature memoir, Tiffany Francis-Baker investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art and literature.
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Witching Hour
Chapter Two: Ghost Stories
Chapter Three: Polar Night
Chapter Four: Taxus Baccata
Chapter Five: Greenwich
Chapter Six: Under Dark Skies
Chapter Seven: The Mountain
Chapter Eight: The Wickerman
Chapter Nine: Midnight Sun
Chapter Ten: Fern Owl
Chapter Eleven: The Dart
Chapter Twelve: Poet Stone
