NIGHTWATCH

Camden House, Camden East, ON, 1988 reprint.  ISBN 0-920656-26-9.  Metal coil bound soft cover, 160 pages including Index, about The Author, Acknowledgments, and Photography and Illustration Credits.  Very good; wraps show some edge and cover wear with some creases and spots; all pages securely bound; prior owner’s name stamped on verso of front wrap.  Interior clean and unmarked with colour and black & white photos and drawings.  ‘Dazzled by the night sky, man has always stood in awe of the cosmos and its seemingly unfathomable display of heavenly objects and phenomena.  Equinox magazine writer and former professional planetarium astronomer Terence Dickinson has drawn on his years of personal experience in the field and classroom to provide readers with a new, totally nonmathematical, “ultrasimplified” method of identifying stars, planets, constellations and nebulas in the ever-changing display that has fascinated stargazers for millennia.’ (from rear wrap)