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Jonathan Cape [Published Date: 2016]. Hardcover, 305 pp. First edition, (with full number line). Very good in very good dust jacket. Green paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1/2" tear to the paper over the top edge of the back cover and a few other small nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Some cool illustrations. [from Publisher] Six facets of light is a series of meditations on this most elusive and alluring feature of human life. Set mostly on the Downs and coastline of East Sussex, the most luminous part of England, it interweaves a walker's experiences of light in Nature with the observations, jottings and thoughts of a dozen writers and painters -- and some scientists -- who have wrestled to define and understand light. From Hopkins to Turner, Coleridge to Whitman, Fra Angelico to Newton, Ravilious to Dante, the mystery of light is teased out and pondered on. Some of the results are surprising. By using mostly notebooks and sketchbooks, this book becomes a portrait of the transitoriness, randomness, swiftness, frustrations and quicksilver beauty that are the essence of light. It is a work to be enjoyed, pondered over, engaged with, provoked by; to be packed in the rucksack of every walker heading for the sea or the hills, or to be opened to bring that outside radiance within four dark town walls.