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Dark Skies Tiffany Francis-Baker

Dark Skies By Tiffany Francis-Baker

Dark Skies by Tiffany Francis-Baker


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Dark Skies Summary

Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night by Tiffany Francis-Baker

Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis 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 investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art and literature.

Dark Skies Reviews

Tiffany Francis-Baker has gone into the last dark continent, the night, and brought back wondrous tales with starlight in her pen. -- John Lewis-Stempel * Author of Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field *
Tiffany Francis-Baker's eloquent and experiential narrative illuminates the shadow filled enclaves of our nocturnal world. -- Joe Harkness * Author of Bird Therapy *
Beautifully written...Francis-Baker combines memoir, history and some glorious landscape writing to provide a thoroughly absorbing evaluation of the role of darkness and night in our literature, culture and, most importantly, our environment. -- Charlie Connolly * New European *
Rich in literary references, Dark Skies is also rippled through with memoir...it's a warmly personal narrative. -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times *
A genuinely inspiring and poetic tale of a year spent exploring the natural world under dark and sometimes star-filled skies. -- Peter Fiennes * Author of Oak and Ash and Thorn *

About Tiffany Francis-Baker

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. www.tiffanyfrancis.com

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

GOR011287608
9781472964601
1472964608
Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night by Tiffany Francis-Baker
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-09-03
272
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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