The Wandering Astronomer
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Author(s): Patrick Moore
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750306939
Format: hardback
208pp
Price: £19.95
Review Date: 31 May 2000
Review: This entertaining collection of essays is designed to be dipped into at random – each essay is only a few pages long. Here Patrick Moore takes a sideways look at the historical reports and contemporary thought behind a wide range of astronomical topics. Among the forty-one essays are thoughts on the past and future of the moon; how the lunar craters weren't formed; travel to the stars?; 'Des. Res.' On Mars?; and the sad case of Dr Elliott.