- Light pollution, Social aspects, Night, Lighting
Describes how ever-present, modern artificial lights have changed the way humans experience darkness and bemoans the fact that the primal dark sky can no longer influence science and art.
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Earnest, spare, contemplative and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Bogard, Paul Bogard
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company, HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Back Bay Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007428212
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