The author combines "the history of Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian 13,795-foot-high site of nine telescopes, with vignettes of the astronomers who work there...Stories concerning political, environmental, and scientific battles are ...[included with] descriptions of telescope construction and use. " (Choice).
- ISBN13 9780306447631
- Publish Date 1 January 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Springer Science+Business Media
- Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
- Edition Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
- Format Paperback
- Pages 350
- Language English