An Intimate Look at the Night Sky by Chet Raymo, Vintage, £8.99, ISBN
0099428679
ANYONE who lives in a city may find it difficult to understand exactly what
inspires Chet Raymo to look up at the sky. Light pollution from all that modern
living renders his star maps of the northern hemisphere’s sky somewhat
indistinct. But—and this makes a huge change from your standard “what to
see in the sky” tome—that is absolutely no reason to avoid dipping into
his chunky paperback, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky, making it the
perfect astronomy book for the city…
