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Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark

Christopher Dewdney mines the darkest pools of lore, legend, natural history, science, cultural history, and the arts to recast the seemingly commonplace aspects of an ordinary night into a magical and exhilarating nocturnal tour using an original hour-by-hour structure that follows night’s progression from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am to explore and celebrate a single representative night at each point on the clock.

Acutely observed, elegantly expressed, and peppered with nocturnal lore and discoveries, Acquainted with the Night is a captivating portrait of the hours of darkness.