A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
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
Publisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781788162555Number of pages: 352Weight: 294 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mmEdition: Main
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'I have read almost everything written on the lunar missions,yet I have never encountered a book that captures so perfectly and yet so lyrically the power that the moon holds over human sensibility.'- The Times
'A superb lunar history that explores both past and future'- The Sunday Times
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