Estels (CATALÀ)

Explore the wonders of the night sky and enjoy it. This is the aim of Estels, through which you can check the fascination that the stars exert on us, with this game of 20 cards and a book full of data and curiosities.

Each postcard represents one of the main constellations, which you can identify thanks to a grid of different sizes depending on the brightness of the stars that make it up. You only need to illuminate the chart with a flashlight and project the constellation on the ground or on a wall to be able to find it around the sky.

The accompanying book explains the constellations in more detail, while commenting on their importance in myth and philosophy, and how we can incorporate this knowledge into our lives.

Four aspects of each constellation are examined: the practical, to identify them in the sky; the cultural, to learn the myths and legends; the philosophical, to know the relationship between people and constellations; and the scientific, to understand some basic notions of modern astronomy.

Technical sheet

Author Mark Westmoquette

Translation Alexandre Gombau i Arnau

Gènere Science and knowledge

Col-lecció Altres natura

First edition September 2023

ISBN 978-84-1356-284-1

Binding Hardcover (with folder)

Size: 14,5 x 21 cm

Pages: 128

Mark Westmoquette

Mark Westmoquette Ph. D. has been a research astronomer for five years. He is also an old zen monk, zen ioga teacher and pilgrimage walker.

Alexandre Gombau i Arnau

He was born in Barcelona in 1969. For more than twenty years he has been working as a literary translator with authors such as Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julian Barnes, Haruki Murakami, Stieg Larsson, Michael Chabon and Elfriede Jelinek, among many others. In 2017 he published his first novel, Carrers salvatges (Angle Editorial), set in the Bronx of the 1970s and modern-day New York. He lives in Seva with his wife and son.