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An exhilarating leap into the dark - in all its forms, enchantments and history - from an award-winning writer and poet
Darkness can make the most ordinary activity feel adventurous. Open a door and step through it. The door might open outwards onto a city street or a country lane; or inwards on a house, a hut, a dream. Any place will do. Step over the threshold, into the dark, and feel your way.
We humans have a complicated relationship with the dark. We fear it, and make great efforts to blot it out. But we also long for it, especially if we live in cities and remember - or think we remember - the dark skies of our childhoods.
Drawing on history and ecology, psychology and physiology, literature and mythology, Night Vision is an expansive, thrilling journey into the true dark. In her quest for a new, more intimate relationship with darkness, acclaimed poet and writer Jean Sprackland finds herself confronting some of the deepest - and darkest - questions about who we are and our place in the world.