A book about how people dealt with night time

This book came out several years ago, and it intrigued me, though I can't remember the title.

One of the points is that when you went to bed at sunset or not long after, you didn't always sleep all the way through the night to dawn--sometimes 12 hours away. The author says that many people would get up for an hour or so and do some projects or go outside and mingle with others that were up.

I didn't get the book at the time, but I've been looking for it. Unfortunately, I think the title is something like Night or something dead common and hard to search.

Might it have been Night in the Middle Ages?

Or maybe At Day's Close: Night in Times Past?

(I found these by doing a tagmash search for ""night, medieval" and "night, history".)

I'm pretty sure it was written by a woman, and it was in English. Night in the Middle Ages looked promising, but I don't see an English language version listed. Is that just because no one has cataloged one here yet?

>3 riani1:
It has an English version - I had been looking at it lately.

Actually, I see a couple of English language editions listed here. There's just no cover art. There are quite a few copies available at Abebooks.

(Scroll down a bit and you'll find some descriptions of the content; #17 seems to have the lengthiest.)

#18 seems to be offered by a very delusional bookseller.

> 3 : There is an English language edition listed : http://www.librarything.com/work/2295499/editions/54397934 - but apparently nobody has uploaded the cover.

> 2: Fascinating. Just added both to my wishlist. Thanks.

The book is At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, which is available both in hard and soft cover, as is the English edition, though I recommend the American. Hope this helps!

Roger Ekirch
(the author)

P.S. I have a new book coming out in January - Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped.l

There's a serious difference between the British and the American edition?

None in content, except for the subtitles. I just prefer the covers of the Norton (U.S.) editions, especially the paperback when compared to the UK paperback.