Full name: Starlight Nights: The Adventures of a Star-Gazer

Author: Leslie C. Peltier Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Astronomy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780933346949 0933346948

This classic autobiography of one of the 20th century's foremost amateur astronomers was originally published by Harper & Row in 1965. In his new foreword, Sky & Telescope contributing editor David H. Levy points out that although many books describe how to watch the sky, Starlight Nights tells us why. The book is illustrated with Peltier family photographs. Similar books: Deep-Sky Wonders by Walter Scott Houston The Backyard Astronomer's Guide by Terence Dickinson Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson Star Ware by Philip S. Harrington 365 Starry Nights by Chet Raymo The Cambridge Star Atlas by Wil Tirion Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris The Friendly Stars by Martha Evans Martin Skywatching by David H. Levy A History of Astronomy by A. Pannekoek The Alchemy of the Heavens by Ken Croswell Strange New Worlds by Ray Jayawardhana Parallax by Alan W. Hirshfeld The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by James Evans A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler by J. L. E. Dreyer A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande What If? by Randall Munroe Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot