| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 240 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
Prologue: 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. |
| Summary |
A 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. |
| Subject |
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
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Sei Shōnagon, approximately 967.
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Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.
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Seasons -- Psychological aspects.
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Nature -- Psychological aspects.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Meditations.
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Satisfaction.
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Palm Beach (Fla.)
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Ithaca (N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
9780393061734 (hardcover) |
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0393061736 (hardcover) |
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