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A review by shanaqui
Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter by Matthew Shindell
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Lunar, edited by Matthew Shindell, is a heck of a chunky book that I was lucky enough to borrow (and immediately decided my mother, a lunar nerd, needed to have). It's full of geological charts of the moon, with commentary on each quadrant, punctuated by short essays on a range of lunar topics -- the moon in silent film, the moon in fiction, women and the space programme, ancient Egypt and their understanding of the moon, and so on. There are various images included of relevant stuff like posters for movies about the moon, artefacts, etc.
I'm pretty sure I didn't absorb half of it, and I'll have to get another look at it at some point, especially because I'm very slow to parse visual information and I'm positive I missed things.
I suspect it's most of interest to the real space nerds, given the expense, but if you get a chance to look through it, you should take a look just to wonder at what we've achieved.
I'm pretty sure I didn't absorb half of it, and I'll have to get another look at it at some point, especially because I'm very slow to parse visual information and I'm positive I missed things.
I suspect it's most of interest to the real space nerds, given the expense, but if you get a chance to look through it, you should take a look just to wonder at what we've achieved.