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- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Number of Pages: 208
- ISBN: 0393061736
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113427174
- Release Date: September 28, 2009
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- #342 in Nature Books (See Top 100 Nature Books Bestsellers)
- #10 in Essays (See Top 100 Essays Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day" by Diane Ackerman to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day"Browse more products related to "Diane Ackerman"Review"[Ackerman] sheds light on the waking world, exploring dawn through science, mythology, art and etymology and her observations. A naturalist and poet, [she] loves the world around her and the language used to describe it with equal passion, and her writing is as invigorating as a lungful of cool morning air." "It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose, studded with arresting phrases and breathtakingly beautiful images....[T]he impressions that linger after closing her book are not of suffering but of joy, not of change, but of the flow of incident halted, over and over, by the masterful hand of an artist who sketches with tender words the small miracles of a vast universe." Publisher's noteDraws on a diverse range of sources from meteorology and religion to history and organic farming to introduce readers to bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, in a series of meditations that describe the author's migration-copying travels between New York and Florida. Draws on a diverse range of sources from meteorology and religion to history and organic farming to introduce readers to bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, in a series of meditations that describe the author's migration-copying travels between New York and Florida. 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. AnnotationDiane Ackerman is a fiction writer, a poet, and a naturalist, and she lets all these talents shine in her gorgeous ode to that magical time of day, the dawn. She draws on her own observations, on myths, on science, and on the often-invisible lives of animals (with particularly fine attention to the avian world) to create a book that is both reverent and deeply personal, a book that opens your eyes to everyday miracles with the same intensity of focus as Annie Dillard's PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK. If You Enjoy "Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day (Hardcover)" by Diane Ackerman (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Essays Bestsellers
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