Books with title A Wonderful Night

When you shine a flashlight into the night sky, the light speeds away from you at 186,000 miles per second. If the light escapes the Earth's atmosphere, it can soar through outer space and on to the stars. How would you like to stow aboard that flight?In this book, you can catch a ride on a light beam as it travels across our solar system and through our galaxy. Head to the distant edges of our universe--and find out why you might just end up back home!Stunning images give you a close-up view of the Moon, Sun, stars, and more.

When you shine a flashlight into the night sky, the light speeds away from you at 186,000 miles per second. If the light escapes the Earth's atmosphere, it can soar through outer space and on to the stars. How would you like to stow aboard that flight?In this book, you can catch a ride on a light beam as it travels across our solar system and through our galaxy. Head to the distant edges of our universe--and find out why you might just end up back home!Stunning images give you a close-up view of the Moon, Sun, stars, and more.

This book is the edition of Harper's Magazine, Vol 138 1918-19, pp. 849-853, and this is the short storybook, and these are some of the lines of this book, He had, however, no excuse for further absence from the bed. And yet bed had never seemed less attractive! He turned out the green-shaded lamp on the desk, and through the four great embrasures swept a flood of mellow moonlight that played strange pranks with the hues of the Persian carpet. The blue gravel drive, sweeping through clustered shrubs, looked like a silver stream. Mr. Betterlee marveled."A wonderful night!" he murmured.