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The Moon - Oliver Morton

The Moon

A History for the Future

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2020 | Main
Economist Books (Verlag)
978-1-78816-255-5 (ISBN)
CHF 17,40 inkl. MwSt
An intimate, profound portrait of the Earth's closest neighbour.
A Sunday Times must read book of 2019

'An out-of-this-world read ... brilliant and compelling. Morton is a high-octane British science journalist, and every chapter is littered with material that strikes, amazes or haunts ... this is a book filled not just with a lifetime's knowledge of its subject but with a lifetime's suppressed excitement.'
James McConnachie, Sunday Times

Every generation has looked up from the Earth and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. 50 years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse - with the whole world watching through their eyes.

In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with the Moon. A counterpoint in the sky, it has shaped our understanding of the Earth from Galileo to Apollo. Its gentle light has spoken of love and loneliness; its battered surface of death and the cosmic. For some, it is a future on which humankind has turned its back. For others, an adventure yet to begin.

Advanced technologies, new ambitions and old dreams mean that men, women and robots now seem certain to return to the Moon. What will they learn there about the universe, the Earth-and themselves? And, this time, will they stay?

Oliver Morton is a senior editor at Economist and an award winning writer. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet and The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 196 x 128 mm
Gewicht 240 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
ISBN-10 1-78816-255-2 / 1788162552
ISBN-13 978-1-78816-255-5 / 9781788162555
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