The end of night Searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light
Book - 2013
Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
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- Published
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New York :
Little, Brown, and Company
2013.
- Edition
- First edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-312) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780316182904
- Main Author
- From a starry night to a streetlight
- Tales from two cities
- Light that blinds, fear that enlightens
- Body, sleep, and dreams
- The ecology of darkness
- Know darkness
- Come together
- The maps of possibility
- The darkest places.