At Day's Close: Night in Times Past cover
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch, Roger A. Ekirch
Description: At Day's Close: Night in Times Past investigates historical patterns of night activity and segmented sleep before industrialization, highlighting practices such as first sleep, a waking period, and second sleep
ISBN: 0393329011
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hownottowrite · 2013-12-05 · Original thread
At Day's Close by Roger Ekirch is a great book about our historical relationship to the night (sleep and not sleeping). http://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/039332901...
dbarlett · 2013-04-13 · Original thread
The Ekirch book referred to is At Day's Close: Night in Times Past [1]. It covers much more than sleep patterns. We think of night as merely the absence of daylight, but in the past it was seen as a different world.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/039332901...