Dawn Light (eBook)

Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

Diane Ackerman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
256 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-07693-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;migrates"e; from winter in Florida to spring, summer, and fall in upstate New York. Humans might luxuriate in the idea of being "e;in"e; nature, Ackerman points out, but we often forget that we are nature-for "e;no facet of nature is as unlikely as we, the tiny bipeds with the giant dreams."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 8 pages of color
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-393-07693-8 / 0393076938
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07693-6 / 9780393076936