Nightfaring In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

About this book

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. Finding solace in the stars at a time of difficulty in her own life, she embarks on a journey that takes her from New Zealand to Uzbekistan, Italy to Japan, Germany to the Himalaya, exploring the many ways that we have depended on, feared and mythologised darkness culturally and historically. The constellations have guided humankind in navigation and husbandry since the very earliest cultures, yet as nocturnal cities bleach our skies and that deep knowledge is lost, are we also losing our connection with the wild, with stillness, with the possibility that self-knowledge and healing can come from darkness, too?

Blending travel and nature writing with history and self-discovery, Nightfaring is a profound and often startling journey through darkness and the endangered night.

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Biography

Megan Eaves-Egenes is a travel writer and advocate for sustainable travel and dark skies. From 2013 to 2019, she was Lonely Planet's North and Central Asia Destination Editor. She has written numerous guidebooks, including ones to China and South Korea, and her journalism has appeared in The Independent, BBC, The Times, CNN, Culture Trip, Time Out, and 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 of Nightscape, DarkSky's quarterly members' magazine. Originally from New Mexico, she has lived all over the world – from China to Prague to Ireland – and has called London home for the last 14 years.