Journey with Diana Kappel-Smith into the nocturnal world of wild North America. Night Life combines scientific descriptions and personal reflections on creatures ranging from spiders and snakes to large predators of the northern Plains.
Facts sprinkle her narrative the way moonlight illuminates a pond. . . . A rich, varied, universal exploration of things that go bump, hop, whoosh—and still—in the night.' —Christian Science Monitor'Graceful, insightful nature writing, especially welcome for its focus on such a rarely seen side of the animal world.'—Kirkus Reviews'A fascinating introduction to the unknowable, commonplace world just outside the back door.' —Wall Street Journal
