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After Dark : Walking Into The Nights Of Aotearoa
Paperback Edition: 1
An enchanting, superbly written exploration of the nights of Aotearoa
Every 24 hours, the Earth rolls into its own vast shadow and darkness floods across the land and sea. In a 1600-kilometre-long gliding plumb-line down the length of New Zealand, our beaches, towns, cities, famrs, forests, lakes and mountains sink into shadow.
Annette Lees takes us walking into the night of Aotearoa that follows. In the company of bats, owls, moths, singing crickets and seabirds, After Dark guides us from dusk to dawn with stories of those who inhabit the night, from lighthouse keepers, trampers, ecologists, Polynesian navigators, ghosts and spirits, through mysterious landscapes and under the light of thousands of stars and the moon.
After Dark weaves memoir, social history, Maori mythology and unknown tales from the natural world to describe the strange enchantments of Aotearoa at night. These tales of intimacy and beauty inspire us to step out of the front door at night, where we can shed our day selves and slip easily into a wilder and older world that is waiting there.
Publisher : Potton & Burton
Pages : 260
Publication date : 2021-09-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, NZ Sport & Outdoor Recreation