The end of night : searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light / Paul Bogard.
Title:
The end of night : searching for natural darkness in an age of artificial light / Paul Bogard.
Author:
Bogard, Paul, 1966-
ISBN:
9780316182904
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
From a starry night to a streetlight -- Tales from two cities -- Light that blinds, fear that enlightens -- Body, sleep, and dreams -- Ecology of darkness -- Know darkness -- Come together -- Maps of possibility -- Darkest places.
Abstract:
Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
