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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393061736

ISBN-139780393061734

eBay Product ID (ePID)72673069

Product Key Features

Book TitleDawn Light : Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicSubjects & Themes / Nature, Essays

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Nature

AuthorDiane Ackerman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15 oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-023459

Reviews[Y]ou're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose, studded with arresting phrases and breathtakingly beautiful images....Her gift to us is the sheer pleasure of seeing the world through her loving eyes., Starred Review. These pieces are accessible and lyrically written, and they flow well, one after another, making reading the book a true pleasure. Ackerman's fans and readers who appreciate nature writing at its finest will love this.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal508.2

SynopsisHumans might luxuriate in the idea of being "in" nature, Ackerman points out, but we often forget that we are nature--for "no facet of nature is as unlikely as we, the tiny bipeds with the giant dreams." Joining science's devotion to detail with religion's appreciation of the sublime, Dawn Light is an impassioned celebration of the miracles of evolution--especially human consciousness of our numbered days on a turning earth., In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn--drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, while she herself "migrates" from winter in Florida to spring, summer, and fall in upstate New York.Humans might luxuriate in the idea of being "in" nature, Ackerman points out, but we often forget that we are nature--for "no facet of nature is as unlikely as we, the tiny bipeds with the giant dreams." Joining science's devotion to detail with religion's appreciation of the sublime, Dawn Light is an impassioned celebration of the miracles of evolution--especially human consciousness of our numbered days on a turning earth., A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.

LC Classification NumberQB637.2.A35 2009