home to the indigenous Shawi

Intertwined through history as relics of the once formidable British Empire

yet confrontational and unapologetic

Often beautiful and regularly unsettling in their ambiguity

the jacket is also unmarked

The Dark is Rising - UK 1st Niagara home to the indigenous ShawiFirst UK edition, first impression in near fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm. The jacket is from a latter edition (1977) now in removable protective sleeve. About The Dark Is Rising is a 1973 children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper. The second in The Dark Is Rising Sequence. The book won a Newbery Honor. It has been described as a "folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark".