Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

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Every year night skies get 10% brighter. Light pollution is erasing the stars.

In Nightfaring, travel writer and dark sky advocate Megan Eaves travels the world to better understand our deep connection with the night sky and what we stand to lose when we lose darkness. She explores the environmental consequences of light pollution, which is disrupting the migration patterns of birds as well as our own circadian rhythms. But shes also interested in the many ways that we have depended on darkness culturally and historically: how indigenous communities like the Maoris in New Zealand have navigated by the stars, and the inspiration that starry skies have provided to artists from Van Gogh to Taylor Swift.

Blending travel writing with history, Nightfaring is a profound and often startling exploration of darkness and the endangered night.

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Megan Eavesis a travel writer and advocate for sustainable travel and dark skies. From 2013 to 2019 she was Lonely Planets North and Central Asia Destination Editor. She has written numerous guidebooks, including to China and South Korea, and her journalism has appeared in theIndependent,BBC,The Times,CNN,Culture Trip,TimeOutand others. In 2019, Megan founded DarkSky London, an advocacy group committed to reducing light pollution and protecting the natural night in the British capital.Since 2021, she has served as Editor ofNightscape, DarkSkys quarterly members magazine. Originally from New Mexico, she has lived all over the world from China to Prague to Uzbekistan and has called London home for the last 13 years.