Dawn Light by Diane Ackerman

Dawn Light by Diane Ackerman

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.

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 Times

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.

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ISBN 13	9780393338751
ISBN 10	0393338754
Title	Dawn Light
Author	Diane Ackerman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2011-04-26
Number of pages	264
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