Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day Book

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date. In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawnâ??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 â??migratesâ? from winter in Florida to spring, summer, and fall in upstate New York. Humans might luxuriate in the idea of being â??inâ? nature, Ackerman points out, but we often forget that we are natureâ??for â??no facet of nature is as unlikely as we, the tiny bipeds with the giant dreams.â? Joining scienceâ??s devotion to detail with religionâ??s appreciation of the sublime, Dawn Light is an impassioned celebration of the miracles of evolutionâ??especially human consciousness of our numbered days on a turning earth. 8 pages of colorRead More