Dawn Light
Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
Published on 1. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-393-33875-1 (ISBN)
Description
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, and poetry in order to celebrate that moment in which the deepest arcades of life and matter become visible. From spring in Ithaca, New York, to winter in Palm Beach, Florida, Dawn Light is an impassioned call to revel in our numbered days on a turning earth.
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Library Corner Best of List, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009.
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Library Corner Best of List, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009.
Reviews / Votes
"Diane Ackerman is one of our great literary voluptuaries...[T]he writing that results is as invigorating as a lungful of cool morning air." -- Gayle Brandeis - San Francisco Chronicle "A keenly observed portrait of the world...A general celebration of our continually renewed existence." -- Los Angeles TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
8 pages four-color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33875-1 (9780393338751)
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E-Book
09/2009
W. W. Norton & Company
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Book
09/2009
WW Norton & Co
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Person
Diane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the best-selling The Zookeeper's Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.