Full Moon

Many of the photos are so detailed and incredible that they can be classified in many categories: as science, as history, as art. In any case, we're so fortunate to live in a time when we are able to see close up - in glorious detail - our celestial neighbor. And it turns out to be a rugged, rough and starkly beautiful object that is even beyond the past imaginings of philosophers, pioneers, poets and peasants.

Full Moon isn't just a book. It's a heavenly experience.


Breathtaking collection of moon/Project Apollo photos   August 27, 2000
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a gorgeous collection of photographs celebrating the Apollo missions to the moon. The photos are huge, rendered in beautiful detail, and are marvelously selected to provide almost the experience of going and being there. Some almost cheat a little bit: larger and larger photos of the moon to indicate the trip there, and likewise with the earth on the trip back. The photos from the moonwalks are wonderful, though, and frequently ones I've never seen before (which is saying something). You can see each footprint and rover track. This is a book I'll be perusing again and again.


A Breathtaking Journey, Godspeed Astroreader!   August 11, 2000
 15 out of 15 found this review helpful

The Apollo 11 moon landing captured the imagination of millions of kids around the world that have dreamed, since then, with a trip to the moon. Now we can all go to our magnificent satellite with this book. With an impressive array of beautiful photographs, both in black and white and in color, Full Moon, allows us to follow the path of the Apollo astronauts, explore the moon's "seas", walk on its surface and see its craters and mountains in vivid detail. The short essays by Andrew Chaikin (The Farthest Place) and Michael Light (The Skin of the Moon) are a well written force on their own. The Notes on the Photographs, precise and informative. But what gives this book its magic, are the images themselves. From cover to cover, from lift-off to moon landing, it is actually like being there, remaking the whole adventure. A Breathtaking Journey! Godspeed!


Full Moon is breathtaking!   July 2, 2000
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The missions of the Apollo astronauts to the Moon & back yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photos, the record of a unique human adventure. Each page conveys the excitement, disorientation & awe that the astronauts felt as they were shot into space, explored an alien landscape & looked back home from space.

If you've ever wanted to see what space flight was like this is the book. If you've ever wanted to get close to the surface of our nearest celestial body, this is it. A large, awe-inspiring volume with some fine, explanatory writing.