An edition of Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day (2009)

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An edition of Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day (2009)

Dawn light

dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day

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A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns, drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping.

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W.W. Norton & Co.
Language
English
Pages
240

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Subjects

Psychological aspects, Effect of environment on, Satisfaction, Seasons, Nature, Meditations, Human beings, Monet, claude, 1840-1926, Hokusai, katsushika, 1760-1849, Nature, psychological aspects, Human beings, effect of environment on, Palm beach (fla.), Nature in literature

People

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Sei Shōnagon (b. ca. 967), Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849)

Places

Ithaca (N.Y.), Palm Beach (Fla.)
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Cover of: Dawn Light
Dawn Light: Dancing With Cranes and Other Ways to Start The Day
2010, W. W. Norton
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Cover of: Dawn light
Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day
2009, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Dawn light
Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day
2009, W.W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Dawn light
Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day
2009, W.W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Prologue: a dawning pleasure
Dawn mother
Spring: Palm Beach, Florida. Dawn among the palms
Just a little rain
A calamity of cranes
The lost night sky
Forget bats
Some tales we tell
Venus observed
In the spirit of Monet
Festivals of the dawn
Troubadours
Missive
Red dawns and fields of green
Time races Dawn's many faces
Summer: Ithaca, New York. Dangerous dawn
In the spirit of Sei Shōnagon
Dawn in the garden of cosmic reflection
Matins with the neighbors (two-legged and four)
The solstice bird
In the spirit of Hokusai
On the ledge of the morning
Dew drop in
Where it's summer
Woodpecker dawn
Glory days
Autumn.The murmuring of innumerable bees
Honeycombing
An angle on Archimedes
A little Sabbath with the sun
Autumn dawn
False dawn
Nothing doing
In the vase of the universe
Clever as clever
Field guides
Winter. Where it's winter
Water, water everywhere
Crystals
One bad rooster spoils the barnyard
After hours
The silence that is not there and the silence that is
Time well spent.

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Dewey Decimal Class
508.2
Library of Congress
QB637.2 .A35 2009, QB637.2.A35 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 240 p. :
Number of pages
240

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OL24103425M
Internet Archive
dawnlightdancing00acke
ISBN 10
0393061736
ISBN 13
9780393061734
LCCN
2009023459
OCLC/WorldCat
317473430

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Work 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, Spirituality and Practice Best of 2009, Library Corner Best of List, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009. More…

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