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Beschreibung
Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis-Baker travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity's connection to the night sky.

For a year, Tiffany travels through different nightscapes across the UK and beyond. She experiences 24-hour daylight while swimming in the Gulf of Finland and visits Norway to witness the Northern Lights and speak to people who live in darkness for three months each year. She hikes through the haunted yew forests of Kingley Vale and embarks on a nocturnal sail down the River Dart.

As she travels, Tiffany explores how our relationship with darkness and the night sky has changed over time. In this personal and beautifully written nature memoir, Tiffany Francis-Baker investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art and literature.
Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis-Baker travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity's connection to the night sky.

For a year, Tiffany travels through different nightscapes across the UK and beyond. She experiences 24-hour daylight while swimming in the Gulf of Finland and visits Norway to witness the Northern Lights and speak to people who live in darkness for three months each year. She hikes through the haunted yew forests of Kingley Vale and embarks on a nocturnal sail down the River Dart.

As she travels, Tiffany explores how our relationship with darkness and the night sky has changed over time. In this personal and beautifully written nature memoir, Tiffany Francis-Baker investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art and literature.
Über den Autor

Tiffany Francis-Baker is a writer, artist and environmentalist from the South Downs in Hampshire. With a mixed background in the arts, rural heritage and conservation, her work is fuelled by a love for the natural world and a passion for protecting it. She writes and illustrates for national publications and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her first book Food You Can Forage was published in March 2018.

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Zusammenfassung
Taps into the wave of popular nature narratives that focus on our changing relationship with landscapes, including Robert MacFarlane's Underland, Mark Cocker's Our Place, Hugh Warwick's Linescapes andRob Cowen's Common Ground
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Witching Hour

Chapter Two: Ghost Stories

Chapter Three: Polar Night

Chapter Four: Taxus Baccata

Chapter Five: Greenwich

Chapter Six: Under Dark Skies

Chapter Seven: The Mountain

Chapter Eight: The Wickerman

Chapter Nine: Midnight Sun

Chapter Ten: Fern Owl

Chapter Eleven: The Dart

Chapter Twelve: Poet Stone

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Importe, Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472964601
ISBN-10: 1472964608
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Francis-Baker, Tiffany
Illustrator: Francis-Baker, Tiffany
Hersteller: Bloomsbury USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 131 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Tiffany Francis-Baker
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2021
Gewicht: 0,225 kg
Artikel-ID: 118036816

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