The Starlore Handbook: The Star-watcher's Essential Guide to the Night Sky, Its Myths and Symbols - Softcover

Cornelius, Geoffrey

9781857328998: The Starlore Handbook: The Star-watcher's Essential Guide to the Night Sky, Its Myths and Symbols

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185732899X ISBN 13: 9781857328998

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, 1997

This guide to the night sky combines astronomy, myth and symbolism. It describes the symbolic significance the heavens assumed in antiquity and details 88 constellations with a star map and starlore profile.

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About the Author:

Geoffrey Cornelius is an expert in astrology and co-author of Chronicle Books' The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets.

Review:

The Starlore Handbook: An Essential Guide to the Night Sky not only tells how to find various major and minor constellations, but also how to draw the starlines that outline their mythic representations. Included are ancient stories that helps make the sky so wondrous and meaningful. Everyone who camps needs a book like this. The Chicago Tribune

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