The Indigo Hours

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The fourth volume of Duncan Minshull’s hugely successful series of anthologies, The Indigo Hours: Writers Walk the Night celebrates the unique experience of walking at night. Drawn from journals, letters, travelogues and diaries ranging from the 1600s to the present day, this fascinating collection records journeys made on urban streets, as well as in the wilds of nature; at twilight; through moonlight and towards dawn. With contributions from Virginia Woolf, Fanny Kemble, Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Jack London, Joanna Kavenna, Edith Wharton, Rachel Carson, W.G. Sebald, George Orwell, Kate Pullinger, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Dorothy Wordsworth, Edward Lear, and many more. Show more