The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons (Star Wars) (Paperback)

by Daniel Wallace (Author), Brandon McKinney (Illustrator), Scott Kolins (Author)

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For the true Star Wars fan, the Essential Guide to Planets and Moons is crucial. You can keep track of all the places mentioned in the movies, books, and comics with this detailed reference. One hundred locations, from the well-known (Tatooine and Hoth) to the more obscure (J't'p'tan and Taanab), are covered in detail. Each planet, moon, or asteroid is accompanied by information on solar system, terrain, language, and points of interest, along with illustrations of the resident species, intelligent and otherwise. Daniel Wallace investigates each planet's role in the Star Wars saga, while Brandon McKinney and Scott Kolins's comic-style black-and-white drawings help the reader get an idea of what these unique worlds and their inhabitants look like. The Essential Guide series also includes Weapons and Technology, Vehicles and Vessels, and Characters.

Product Description

THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE TO THE WORLDS OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY!

From the sun-baked deserts of Tatooine to the frost-bitten snowscape of Hoth to the misty swamps of Dagobah, here's your expert guide to the hundred most fascinating worlds of the extraordinary Star Wars universe. Travel from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim Territories and discover the wonders of:

 ¸  Kashyyyk--the treacherous, arboreal planet where the Wookiee race dwells among the branches in elevated cities . . . and lethal predators rule the surface
 ¸  Bespin--the gas planet devoid of solid ground, in whose atmosphere hovers the formidable Cloud City
 ¸  Endor--The Forest Moon: home to the peaceful but powerful Ewoks and site of a decisive battle in the galactic civil war
 ¸  Coruscant--center of power, law, history, and culture in the galaxy . . . and once the location of Imperial City, the seat of the dreaded Empire

EXPLORE THE TERRAIN, MEET THE INHABITANTS, AND UNCOVER THE SECRETS OF THESE AND MANY, MANY MORE REMARKABLE DESTINATIONS ON A CAPTIVATING, FULLY-ILLUSTRATED VOYAGE TO THE BRIGHTEST STARS OF A FANTASTIC UNIVERSE!


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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey; 1 edition (July 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345420683
• ISBN-13: 978-0345420688
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #307,798 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not quite essential..., March 30, 2000

By	Nathan Blumenfeld "mastadge" (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons is definitely the least essential and worst of all of the guides. Instead of going into the culture and ecology of the planets like it should have, it simply tells us the story of whatever adventure our heroes had there. We get that from reading the novels! This book would have been so much neater if it had told us something at all about life on these planets.

We don't even get a neat map of the planets -- instead, a tiny black and white globe that isn't helpful, with a 1"x3" little inset map of the area we have heard most about in the books. Beneath that is a little illustration of a couple of people from that planet, most of them pretty bad and unhelpful. And then we get some more bad pictures of some native flora and fauna and some corny captions beneath them.

This book is quite a waste of time and money!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome but not so awesome, April 22, 1999

By A Customer

This book is good but it doesn't say enough about the planets. Most of it is about their involvement in Star Wars

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has it all!!, April 4, 1999

By	Justin Alexander ([e-mail]) "alexkenk" (Washington, DC, United States of America) - See all my reviews

From Alderain to Dathmorir, from Kashyyk to Mrlsst, this book has them all. It tells you the species, language, system, and points of interest on a given planet.(Except Earth)