Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
"Gathers an amazing amount of interesting material to escort readers on an exploration of human thought about the sky, its phenomena, and objects.  It presents abundant examples of how very different peoples have viewed the sun, moon, planets, stars, comets, the Milky Way, and their apparent behavior....Krupp's writing is always in the best style, and this work is no exception....In summary, this is an impressive, interesting, and useful work whose pages should become worn from use over the many years it will remain a standard, highly treasured source of information."--Sky and Telescope"A delight, a gentle scientific look at the stories humjanity has told to explain the unknown, presented in an accessibly conversational style....Krupp is educational, but he's also fun."--The Sacramento Bee"[A] scintillating tour of the myths, legends, and science of the moon, stars, and planets....An erudite but easy-going guide to how the human imagination has filled the world above us with ideas, inventions, and beliefs."--A Common Reader"An epic, entertaining, and exhaustively researched volume."--Science News"Full of fascinating connections and odd facts....Lavishly illustrated."--Science Frontiers Book Supplement"Excellent....An extraordinary collection of folktales and myths and lore relating to the cosmos and our place in it, all placed into context by an astronomer who revels in the wonder and beauty of the natural world."--Skeptical Inquirer"The writing style is easy and flowing, now pure poetry, now humorously vernacular....A tremendously helpful compendium of countless legends and myths....[Here] speaks a true scientist, one who learns from nature, letting intuition speak for instinctively recognized values of a reality beyond the gravitationally bound brainmind."--Sunrise"A detailed yet readable look at the world's myths and legends relating to the sun, moon, planets, and stars."--Astronomy