In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, and poetry in order to celebrate that moment in which the deepest arcades of life and matter become visible. From spring in Ithaca, New York, to winter in Palm Beach, Florida, Dawn Light is an impassioned call to revel in our numbered days on a turning earth.

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Library Corner Best of List, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009.

About the Author
Diane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the best-selling The Zookeeper's Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

Reviews
"Diane Ackerman is one of our great literary voluptuaries...[T]he writing that results is as invigorating as a lungful of cool morning air." -- Gayle Brandeis - San Francisco Chronicle
"A keenly observed portrait of the world...A general celebration of our continually renewed existence." -- Los Angeles Times



Book Information
ISBN 9780393338751
Author Diane Ackerman
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 306g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 18mm