Tiffany Francis-Baker

Dark Skies (eBook, ePUB)

A Journey into the Wild Night
Illustrator: Francis-Baker, Tiffany

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472964571
• Artikelnr.: 57431616

Autorenporträt

Tiffany Francis is an award-winning 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 books include Food You Can Forage, the Concise Foraging Guide, Bees and Beekeeping and Dark Skies. In 2023, The British Horse Society presented Tiffany with the Elwyn Hartley-Edwards Award for her work in promoting the enjoyment of equestrianism and raising awareness of BHS campaigns and wider issues within the equine industry in The Bridleway.

www.tiffanyfrancisbaker.com

Inhaltsangabe

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