September 13, 2009
Dawn Light
Dancing With Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
With a particular talent for combining science, art, and history, author Diane Ackerman leads us to experience common events in a whole new way. Beginning with A Natural History of the Senses in 1990, she focuses on the smallest details, those that we tend to filter out of our daily lives. Her latest book starts with observations of the early hours of the day, and from there she expertly weaves in lessons learned from watching the turning of the seasons, the migration of birds, and the wonderful effects of changing sunlight. This is nature writing at its most luminous.
