The End Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light Audiobook

Quotes

• “Absorbing…The End of Night delivers a forceful…critique of our overexposed world.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “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)

• “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)

• “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

• “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

• “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 moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking study... Terrific.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Appealing…An engaging blend of personal story, hard science and a bit of history.”

  — Kirkus Reviews