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<p>"Seen from across a field at night, with its swags of white lights scalloped from mast to mast against the sky, it looks like an ocean liner far out on the water. Yet it is still a tent. It appears on Monday, in what was an empty field on Sunday. While it's there, it forms the landscape around it in a new way, transforming its meanings just as horses do when they walk into a pasture. A week later, there's an empty field again. The tent is gone, and so is the little village of trucks and trailers that clustered around it as if it were a castle. Did I dream it?" - from Night After Nigh.<p>Night After Night is an enrapturing meditation on a small, traditional, one-ring circus. Diana Cooper delights us with the realization that circus is more than mere entertainment. It is a splendid classical art form, grounded in venerable skills and traditions, with its deepest sources in the vitality of myth, ritual, fantasy, fear, wonder, laughter, and awe.<p>Throughout the book, Cooper raises important issues such as human/animal communication and coexistence, permutations of fantasy and reality, the beauties of diversity, and notions about what is, and is not natural. Her love of and respect for the culture of circus - the forms and understandings that enable it to bring joy to all it touches - infuse every page of this literary treasure.
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Those who view a day at the circus the equivalent of a night at the opera will be caught up in the spirit of this book about the itinerant Big Apple Circus, a one-ring affair that offers its audience up-close seating. First-time author Cooper rhapsodizes about the acts, from horses, camels and elephants to trapeze performers, contortionists and clowns. People whose approach to the Big Top is less reverential will be somewhat more skeptical about Cooper's disquisitions on the psychology of trained animals (dignity is irrelevant to them, she maintains) and will be hard put to share her wonderment at clowns blowing soap bubbles at one another. She notes that in this country, unlike in Europe, almost every adult who attends the circus is accompanied by a child, but she is reluctant to draw the conclusion that Americans consider the circus entertainment fit for children only. Cooper is an unusually good stylist, but her subject matter does not fare well under the weight of her approach. Illustrations. (May)
From The Critics
Included in this directory's 4000 entries are senators and representatives by state with their website, phone and fax; vital statistics and descriptions of federal, state, and provincial government agencies; non-profit and for-profit NGOs; and U.S. educational institutions. Also listed is contact information on federally protected areas. Four indexes list organizations, keywords, staff names, and the helpful list of organizations by state. While the directory is international, most entries by far are in the US. Canada has a substantial number and 14 other countries have one to two entries each. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781559633062
  • Publisher: Island Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/1994
  • Pages: 173
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
User's Guide ix
National Wildlife Federation Affiliate Organizations x
U.S. Congress, Committees, and Subcommittees 1
U.S. Federal and International Government Agencies: Includes Departments of the Executive Branch, Independent Agencies, Commissions, Canadian Federal Government Agencies, and other International Government Agencies 23
State and Provincial Government Agencies: Includes U.S. State and Canadian Provincial Government Agencies 81
Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations: Includes United States and International Organizations not affiliated with government agencies 233
Non-Governmental For-Profit Organizations: Includes United States and International Organizations not affiliated with government agencies 586
Educational Institutions: Colleges and universities with conservation and environmental studies programs 595
Federally Protected Areas 649
Bureau of Land Management Districts 649
National Estuarine Research Reserves 652
National Forests 654
National Grasslands 658
National Marine Sanctuaries 659
National Parks 659
National Seashores 661
National Wildlife Refuges 662
National Wildlife Refuges Regional Directors 672
Indices
Organization Name Index 673
Keyword Index 695
Staff Name Index 751
Geographic Index 787
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