All aboard

the long version

Here is a rare book of poetry for the young which should find a ready response among a generation growing up in a space-conscious world. Its theme is no less than the marvels of the universe and the marvels of courage and ingenuity by which man has made himself at home in it. There are poems about stars and planets, the earth, the sun, the moon; poems about man's conquest of the sea, the mountains, the air; poems about snow and wind, clouds and rain. Through all of them runs a sense of wonder, a note of triumph. This, they all say, is indeed a wonderful world, a world too rich to be destroyed.