Moon: Nature and Culture

Author: Edgar Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A witty and informative tale of everything lunar, tracing the moon's cultural resonance throughout humanity's history. Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and much else besides, humanity's relationship with the moon has been ever-changing; the one constant has been our...Read more