Ebook: Nocturne: a Journey in Search of Moonlight

"Nobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon," wrote Goethe in 1787. Sadly, the imagination is all we have today: in Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by the twenty-four-hour glow of streetlights in a world that never sleeps. Moonlight, for most of us, is no more. . So James Attlee set out to find it. Nocturne is the record of that journey, a traveler's tale that takes readers on a dazzling nighttime trek that ranges across continents, from prehistory to the present, and through both the physical world and th.;Moonrise; Sky Maps and Ghost Ships; Part One: Syzigy; A Three-Dog Night by the River; A Barefoot Galileo; Absorbed by Its Shadows; Earthshine; Eostre and a Paschal Moon; A White Horse and Mammoth Bones; Fear of the Dark; Darkness and the Desert: An Islamic Moon; Mussolini, the Madonna and Moonlight; Extollagers in the Valley of Vision: Memory, Moonlight and Samuel Palmer; Dark Adaption and the Eye of the Beholder; The Path of Totality; Adrift on the Iapetus Ocean; August Beach Moon, Normandy; Immaculate Conceptions and Transparent Moons.