The Sky Is Not the Limit
Subtitle: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781591021889
Subjects: Popular astronomy; United States; Biography / Autobiography; Astrophysics; Universe; Science; Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Science/Mathematics; Scientists - General; Astronomy - General; Astrophysicists; Biography
First sentence: At my high school graduating class's twenty-year reunion, during the obligatory assessments of how well time had treated us all, I won "the coolest job" contest in a straw poll of all those attending.
Description: This is the absorbing story of Neil de Grasse Tyson's lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium. A unique chronicle of a young man who at one time was both nerd and jock, Tyson's memoir could well inspire other similarly curious youngsters to pursue their dreams.