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Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

Autor Tiffany Francis-Baker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472964601
ISBN-10: 1472964608
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 12 hand-drawn black and white chapter illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Wildlife
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Taps into the wave of popular nature narratives that focus on our changing relationship with landscapes, including Robert MacFarlane's Underland, Mark Cocker's Our Place, Hugh Warwick's Linescapes and Rob Cowen's Common Ground

Notă biografică

Tiffany Francis-Baker is a writer, artist and environmentalist from the South Downs in Hampshire. With a mixed background in the arts, rural heritage and conservation, her work is fuelled by a love for the natural world and a passion for protecting it. She writes and illustrates for national publications and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her first book Food You Can Forage was published in March 2018. www.tiffanyfrancisbaker.com

Cuprins

Chapter One: Witching HourChapter Two: Ghost StoriesChapter Three: Polar NightChapter Four: Taxus BaccataChapter Five: GreenwichChapter Six: Under Dark SkiesChapter Seven: The MountainChapter Eight: The WickermanChapter Nine: Midnight SunChapter Ten: Fern OwlChapter Eleven: The DartChapter Twelve: Poet Stone

Recenzii

Tiffany Francis-Baker has gone into the last dark continent, the night, and brought back wondrous tales with starlight in her pen.
Tiffany Francis-Baker's eloquent and experiential narrative illuminates the shadow filled enclaves of our nocturnal world.
Beautifully written...Francis-Baker combines memoir, history and some glorious landscape writing to provide a thoroughly absorbing evaluation of the role of darkness and night in our literature, culture and, most importantly, our environment.
Rich in literary references, Dark Skies is also rippled through with memoir...it's a warmly personal narrative.
A genuinely inspiring and poetic tale of a year spent exploring the natural world under dark and sometimes star-filled skies.