This chapter is mostly a resource guide of books, maps, atlases and websites that I hope will help you to take things further. I finish the chapter with a key map for locating the lunar surface features/areas explored in the next chapter.

OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS

I would like to give special mention of a couple of major works about lunar science which are no longer in print. If you want a large (over 700 page) single-volume guide to the science of the Moon as we knew it post-Apollo then you can do no better than to locate a copy of the Lunar Sourcebook – a User's Guide to the Moon. It is edited by G. Heiken, D. Vaniman and B. French and was published by Cambridge University Press in 1991. It is chock-full of data, information and explanations about the physics, chemistry and geology of the Moon and how that information was obtained. It includes a list of hundreds of references to scientific papers and the details and contact addresses of many sources of lunar databases, imagery and archives. It is a superb springboard to further studies as well as being a mine of information itself.

Another excellent book about the exploration of the Moon and our knowledge of it post-Apollo is The Moon – Our Sister Planet by Peter Cadogan, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1981.