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Amazing, similar to Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Amount of time in its haunting evocation of human lifestyles, provides a sweeping view of the remarkably revealing facet of human history--in the rock lights of the Pleistocene to the LEDs stuck in materials into the future. Brox plumbs the course ramifications of sunshine--who'd it, when tallow candles and raw lights limited waking hours who did not--through the numerous generations. She well shows the hell bent quest of whale oil whilst the very first time the individual desire to have lighting push people toward an ecological tipping point. Just years later, gas street lamps exposed the night hours to discretion, which transformed the ways we rest and stay and the planet's environments.