I've read a lot of astronomy books over my career.
A lot!
Amazingly, my favorite of all isn't even a book about astronomy. It's the inspirational and romantic autobiography of the late amateur astronomer and comet-discoverer-extraordinaire Leslie Peltier.
In his marvelous "Starlight Nights," Peltier wrote ever so eloquently of his passion for stargazing and how, as a wide-eyed child many years ago, he had learned about his very first star:
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