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001 2009023459
003 DLC
005 20100305171451.0
008 090625s2009 nyua 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009023459
020 $a9780393061734 (hardcover)
020 $a0393061736 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn317473430
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBRL$dVP@$dWIQ$dC#P$dEINCP$dYDXCP$dFTL$dUPZ$dDLC
050 00 $aQB637.2$b.A35 2009
082 00 $a508.2$222
100 1 $aAckerman, Diane,$d1948-
245 10 $aDawn light :$bdancing with cranes and other ways to start the day /$cDiane Ackerman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$cc2009.
300 $axiv, 240 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aPrologue: a dawning pleasure -- Dawn mother -- Spring: Palm Beach, Florida. Dawn among the palms -- Just a little rain -- A calamity of cranes -- The lost night sky -- Forget bats -- Some tales we tell -- Venus observed -- In the spirit of Monet -- Festivals of the dawn -- Troubadours -- Missive -- Red dawns and fields of green -- Time races Dawn's many faces -- Summer: Ithaca, New York. Dangerous dawn -- In the spirit of Sei Shōnagon -- Dawn in the garden of cosmic reflection --Matins with the neighbors (two-legged and four) -- The solstice bird -- In the spirit of Hokusai -- On the ledge of the morning -- Dew drop in -- Where it's summer -- Woodpecker dawn -- Glory days -- Autumn.The murmuring of innumerable bees -- Honeycombing -- An angle on Archimedes -- A little Sabbath with the sun -- Autumn dawn -- False dawn -- Nothing doing -- In the vase of the universe -- Clever as clever -- Field guides -- Winter. Where it's winter -- Water, water everywhere -- Crystals -- One bad rooster spoils the barnyard -- After hours -- The silence that is not there and the silence that is -- Time well spent.
520 $aA celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns, drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping.
650 0 $aSeasons$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aNature$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aHuman beings$xEffect of environment on.
650 0 $aMeditations.
650 0 $aSatisfaction.
600 10 $aMonet, Claude,$d1840-1926.
600 00 $aSei Shōnagon,$db. ca. 967.
600 10 $aKatsushika, Hokusai,$d1760-1849.
651 0 $aPalm Beach (Fla.)
651 0 $aIthaca (N.Y.)