At Day's Close - by A Roger Ekirch (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Bringing light to the shadows of history through a rich weave of citation and archival evidence (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians--those that unfold at night. In this triumph of social history (<em>Mail on Sunday</em>), Ekirch's enthralling anthropology (<em>Harper's</em>) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life.</p><p>Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams--Ekirch reveals all these and more in his monumental study (<em>The Nation</em>) of sociocultural history, maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder (<em>Booklist</em>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Absorbing...fascinating...[Ekirch] has plundered an extraordinary range of cross-cultural sources for his material, and he tells us about everything from witches to firefighting, architecture to domestic violence...[A] monumental study.--Terry Eagleton "The Nation"<br><br>An absorbing social history...A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness.--Raymond Carr "The Spectator"<br><br>An enthralling anthropology of the shadow realms.--John Leonard "Harper's"<br><br>Engrossing...Ekirch's narrative is rooted in the material realities of the past, evoking a bygone world of extreme physicality and pre-industrial survival stratagems.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br>Perfect reading for insomniacs and star-gazers alike.--Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University<br><br>This is an irresistibly fascinating book. It has a hypnotic, feverish pace that will have its readers up all night wondering, expectant.--Ken Burns<br>
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