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Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World After Dark by Christopher Dewdney explores the multifaceted world of the night through fourteen chapters, each representing an hour from six o'clock in the evening to five o'clock in the morning. Themes range from the transition from day to night, night animals, children's bedtime stories, urban nightlife, and insomnia, to global nighttime festivals, dream interpretations, and night in art and mythology. The book effectively combines art and science while offering insightful essays on various nocturnal phenomena. Discussions of sudden unexplained death syndrome may be sensitive for some readers.