Comment on tone

Not surprisingly, the tone of the book, "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris, is written in a teaching, professorial tone. Ferris is an emeritus professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley where he teaches his students to present all sides of an issue and to write only the facts and write them with clarity. He has followed his own ad vice in the writing of this book. And on the subject of science, Ferris is considered to be on of the best science writers on the modern scene.