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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day Paperback - 2010

by Diane Ackerman

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In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Ackerman awakens readers to the world at dawn--drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping.

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In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, and poetry in order to celebrate that moment in which the deepest arcades of life and matter become visible. From spring in Ithaca, New York, to winter in Palm Beach, Florida, Dawn Light is an impassioned call to revel in our numbered days on a turning earth.

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Library Corner Best of List, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009.

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  • Title Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
  • Author Diane Ackerman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2010-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393338751 / 0393338754
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Meditations, Human beings - Effect of environment on
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508.2
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