At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

The book is a well written series of facts with short anecdotes and quotes from a particular village meant as illustration for the whole. There was nothing here that was particularly new or insightful. If the focus had been narrowed to a shorter time period of 50-100 years or a particular region there would have been opportunity to understand the culture of night and share stories to illustrate the experience of those people in that time. I read the first 130 pages and skimmed the rest. My plan is to go to some of the source material in the bibliography for the insight.