A Happy New Year to all our Patrons!

Let National Geographic be your guide to the world after dark. In this beautifully illustrated volume you will discover all there is to see and do after the sun goes down. Whether you’re looking for a relaxing night sleeping under the stars or a high-energy party full of costumes and live music, there is something for everyone in this nocturnal collection. Spanning more than 30 countries, this book offers adventures big and small including:

• Snorkeling at night with manta rays off the coast of Kona, Hawaii
• Celebrating a New Year in Chiang Mai during Loy Krathong, Thailand’s Lantern Festival
• Searchingfor glowing mushrooms at night in the wilds of Australia
• Tubing under a “starry sky” of glow worms in New Zealand
• Wildlife spotting on a night safari game drive in Tanzania
• Hiking by moonlight in Arches National Park
• Skiing under the lights in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
• Chasing the aurora borealis in Svalbard, Norway
• Watching beloved films at the Celebrity Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California
• Listening to the singing trees in Singapore’s Supertree Grove
• Learning celestial navigation from Polynesian wayfinders
• Bringing Christmas cheer through a night of revelry during Austria’s Krampus festival
• Sleeping under the stars in the Sahara desert
• Ringing in the New Year as the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square
• Participating in a centuries-old celebration, China’s mid-autumn Moon Festival
• And so much more!

    Get ready to stay up late: this travel guide will delight wanderers, armchair travelers, and night owls alike and is a must-have collection for your coffee table.

And more night time wonders…

In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit. Because no matter where we live, we are surrounded by animals that rise with the moon, and blooms that reveal themselves as light fades. Henion explores her home region of Appalachia, where she attends a synchronous firefly event in Tennessee, a bat outing in Alabama, and a moth festival in Ohio. In North Carolina, she finds forests alight with bioluminescent mushrooms, neighborhood trees full of screech owls, and valleys teeming with migratory salamanders. Along the way, Henion encounters naturalists, biologists, primitive-skills experts, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to cultivating relationships with darkness. 

Every page of this lyrical book feels like an opportunity to ask: How did I not know about this before? For example, we learn that it can take hours, not minutes, for human eyes to reach full night vision capacity. And that there are thousands of firefly species on earth, many with flash patterns as unique as fingerprints. In an age of increasing artificial light, Night Magic focuses on the amazing biodiversity that still surrounds us after sunset. We do not need to stargaze into the distant cosmos or dive into the depths of oceans to find awe in the dark. There are dazzling wonders in our own backyards. And readers of World of Wonders, Entangled Life, and The Hidden Life of Trees will discover joy in Night Magic.