Glacier National Park After Dark: Sunset to Sunrise in a Beloved Montana Wilderness

Glacier National Park After Dark: Sunset to Sunrise in a Beloved Montana Wilderness by John Ashley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781591521785.

Glacier National Park After Dark is a book like no other. With feet firmly planted in Montanas most-loved national park, these original essays and breathtaking photographs walk you through a universe of cultural history and native traditions, astronomy and philosophy, vision and photography, natural history and modern conservation. Like the books author, its very different. The photographs within these pages were gathered from more than 100 nights spent standing in the darkness of Glacier National Park, spanning almost three decades. This lightly-populated corner of Montana still harbors skies dark enough for the summer Milky Way to knock your socks off. Its a place where you can still see faint comet tails and shooting stars, northern lights and crescent moons. Its a wilderness where you can rediscover why the night sky inspired legends and religions in human cultures throughout recorded history. Just 136 years after Edisons first light bulb patent, we are losing or dark, night skies all across the globe. Without realizing it, we are trading the Milky Way for an alien orange glow that smothers the stars. After evolving with darkness for millennia, this relatively sudden shift to lighter nights is causing human health issue and ecological problems for many of the plants and animals that we share this little planet with. Too much light, too little real darkness. Its a modern problem thats easy to fix. Mostly whats missing is an awareness. Glacier National Part After Dark is a gentle nudge to help you wake up. And, just maybe, youll rise up to rediscover the night sky.