A. Roger Ekirch is a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the award-winning author of At Day's Close and of Birthright. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia.
"An enthralling anthropology of the shadow realms."
*John Leonard - Harper's*
"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."
*Terry Eagleton - The Nation*
"This is an irresistibly fascinating book. It has a hypnotic,
feverish pace that will have its readers up all night wondering,
expectant."
*Ken Burns*
"Perfect reading for insomniacs and star-gazers alike."
*Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History, Yale
University*
"An absorbing social history…A wonderful revelation of a vanished
age of darkness."
*Raymond Carr - The Spectator*
"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."
*Publishers Weekly*
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