Nininger H.H. Find a Falling Star

New York: Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., 1972. — 284 p.Everyone agrees that it is important that man understand something of the history of the earth and of the universe, particularly the Solar System. This book, and indeed the author's whole life, reflects in a small and modest way an attempt to help with that understanding.
It seems high time that man cease propagating the myth that the earth was created one afternoon about 6,000 years ago and that he gear his thinking to a recognition of the fact that he lives in the midst of a process the individual incidents of which are so widely separated in time and space that no one ever sees enough of it to adequately describe it; but by careful evaluation of recorded incidents he may build a reliable concept of Nature, including himself, and his race, basking in the radiance of increasing knowledge and of the ingenuity behind the whole performance.The path behind.
The challenge.
Finding a way.
Peaks and valleys.
On various trails.
Not all knowledge is in books.
Not all the big ones get away.
Prospects a n d prospectors.
Plateau.
A new lease.
Discovery.
Home.
Slowing d o w N.
New paths a n d byways.