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Dawn light : dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day / Diane Ackerman.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393061736
  • ISBN: 9780393061734
  • Physical Description: xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Sei Shōnagon, approximately 967-
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Nature > Psychological aspects.
Satisfaction.
Seasons > Psychological aspects.
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Palm Beach (Fla.)
Genre:
Meditations.

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