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A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left.

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"""A hymn to vanished darkness. A literary journey. This is a rich book. As you read it, you too will want to reclaim the night and perhaps rediscover the heavens of the Enlightenment."" -- ""Nature"" ""A lyrical, far-reaching book. Part elegy, part call-to-arms, The End of Night feels like an essential addition to the literature of nature."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""A moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking study... Terrific."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Absorbing...The End of Night delivers a forceful...critique of our overexposed world."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Appealing...An engaging blend of personal story, hard science and a bit of history."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Introducing us to the pitch-black island of Sark, and groups such as Civil Twilight (designer of streetlights that shut off under moonlight) and Starlight Reserves (which considers freedom from light pollution a basic right), Bogard makes a solid case for hitting the national dimmer switch."" -- ""Mother Jones"" ""It's impossible not to read this thorough and engaging survey of the subject and not be convinced [that light pollution matters]."" -- ""Evening Standard (London)"" ""It's impossible to read it without feeling the impulse to set out for the spaces beyond the city limits and spread out a blanket under the stars."" -- ""Columbus Dispatch"" ""To seek to let back in a little of the lost starlight and allow more of nature's shadow to reassert its balm seem to me both modest and wholesome aims, and Bogard's book does much to make a case for them."" -- ""Guardian (London)"""

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Paul Bogard teaches creative nonfiction at James Madison University. He is the editor of the anthology Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark. Paul Bogard teaches creative nonfiction at James Madison University. He is the editor of the anthology Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark.

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