Dawn light
Subtitle: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day
By: Diane Ackerman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780393061734
Subjects: Monet, Claude, -- 1840-1926; Sei Shōnagon, -- b. ca. 967; Katsushika, Hokusai, -- 1760-1849; Seasons -- Psychological aspects; Nature -- Psychological aspects; Human beings -- Effect of environment on; Meditations; Satisfaction; Palm Beach (Fla.); Ithaca (N.Y.)
Description: A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns, drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: a dawning pleasure; title: Dawn mother; title: Spring: Palm Beach, Florida. Dawn among the palms; title: Just a little rain; title: A calamity of cranes; title: The lost night sky; title: Forget bats; title: Some tales we tell; title: Venus observed; title: In the spirit of Monet; title: Festivals of the dawn; title: Troubadours; title: Missive; title: Red dawns and fields of green; title: Time races Dawn's many faces; title: Summer: Ithaca, New York. Dangerous dawn; title: In the spirit of Sei Shōnagon; title: Dawn in the garden of cosmic reflection; title: Matins with the neighbors (two-legged and four); title: The solstice bird; title: In the spirit of Hokusai; title: On the ledge of the morning; title: Dew drop in; title: Where it's summer; title: Woodpecker dawn; title: Glory days; title: Autumn.The murmuring of innumerable bees; title: Honeycombing; title: An angle on Archimedes; title: A little Sabbath with the sun; title: Autumn dawn; title: False dawn; title: Nothing doing; title: In the vase of the universe; title: Clever as clever; title: Field guides; title: Winter. Where it's winter; title: Water, water everywhere; title: Crystals; title: One bad rooster spoils the barnyard; title: After hours; title: The silence that is not there and the silence that is; title: Time well spent.