At Day's Close Night in Times Past [Paperback]

An enthralling anthropology of the shadow realms.Absorbing&fascinating&[Ekirch] has plundered an extraordinary range of cross-cultural sources for his material, and he tells us about everything from witches to firefighting, architecture to domestic violence&[A] monumental study.This is an irresistibly fascinating book. It has a hypnotic, feverish pace that will have its readers up all night wondering, expectant.Perfect reading for insomniacs and star-gazers alike.An absorbing social history&A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness.Engrossing&Ekirch's narrative is rooted in the material realities of the past, evoking a bygone world of extreme physicality and pre-industrial survival stratagems. Remarkable&Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us. Arthur Krystal,