Moon Handbooks: The Moon (1st Ed.) [Paperback]

Carl Koppeschaar (Author), Susan Massotty (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1995 | ISBN-10: 1566910668 | ISBN-13: 978-1566910668

This book offers a history of human understa nding of the moon, and includes maps and charts which detail gravity, visibility and topography '

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Moon has provided travel guides to everywhere from Saskatchewan to Timbuktu, so it's about time they came up with the title volume--a handbook to the moon. It's an interesting book even if you haven't exhausted Earth's travel options. Along with detailed chapters on geology and the history of moon exploration, Carl Koppeschaar looks to the future of what moon travel might be like, including a moon museum and monorail transportation system. If you're tired of Europe and shudder at Bali's ruins, scope out a place in line to be the first on your block to vacation on the moon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Pub (November 1995)
• ISBN-10: 1566910668
• ISBN-13: 978-1566910668
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,227,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Lil'Book!, January 3, 2007

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This review is from: Moon Handbooks: The Moon (1st Ed.) (Paperback)

This 127-page book is a well-written, information-packed, fun-filled book the author (Carl Koppeschaar) should be quite proud. I am pleased to have it in my home library and do refer to it periodically, not because I am planning a lunar trek in the near-term, but because of the nuggests of data about the moon placed throughout the text. One does get a sense of what humans on the moon in the 21st Century will enjoy and do. The book is exceptionally illistrated (Susan Massotty) with drawings, charts, Apollo era lunar pictures, and lunar maps throughout the text to give the book more life and passion. I HIGHLY commend this book for anyone daring to think of the future moon today. While the first edition book was published in 1995, it merits some very minor updates and a reprint. It RoX! From the book's small apperance, it can be underestiamted but don't be fooled. After I started the book, I could not set it back down until complete. This book tells why we must return to the Moon to stay. I actually give this book SIX ****** STARS.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book for a lunar-traveler, August 12, 1998

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This review is from: Moon Handbooks: The Moon (1st Ed.) (Paperback)

This is a great book.It tells you were to stay,what to see,were to eat all on the moon!It gives a short history of the moon andsome stuff that might happen on the moon(the author predicted that we would find ice on the moon and we did in the year the book predicted!) This is a must if you love the moon.