Donald Fernie

Setting Sail is a book of short astronomy stories. I personally love short story books, especially science books and my favorite science is astronomy; so it was no surprise that I enjoyed this book very much. Each story was interesting and informative, both of which you would want in a science book. Many of the stories I did not know so the material was new to me. This made the book fun to read and not a retelling of already known tales. At times I did find the language in the book unusual. The book was written in “British” English and I found it different at times to the “American” English I know so well. But this did not take away any of the excitement of the book. It only brought more color to the tales!… (meer)