The arrival of a copy of Tiffany Francis-Baker’s new book “The Dark Skies of Britain & Ireland” in my post box this past week reminded me that I have been neglectful of publishing any notice of another very useful book she wrote that saw publication this past May: her Bloomsbury Concise Foraging Guide.
With the publication by Bradt of her Tiffany Francis-Baker’s “The Dark Skies of Britain & Ireland; A Stargazer’s Guide,” she expands upon the astronomical elements she first touched upon in her 2019 book “Dark Skies,” and guides her readers into the delights of astronomy by leading through a tour of the best places to look up in wonder throughout the the scepter’d and emerald isles respectively.
Ever since I was a boy, I have loved the night. Short-sighted as I was, I found that moving about in the darkness of my rural home village put matters on a more even playing field, as it were, with all those who could see much more clearly than I could in the daylight. In fact, mix a little fog into the darkness and I was in heaven; no one else could then see any better than I could.