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OUR MOON - REBECCA BOYLE KARTONIERT (TB)

'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' 
TELEGRAPH   'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'
CHRIS HADFIELD  author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth   'You will never look at the
Moon the same way again . . . fascinating'  NEW STATESMAN   'Boyle's writing shines  shifting
through time and space  science and sentiment  a luminous read'  REBECCA WRAGG SYKES  author of
Kindred   'An exciting read and a love letter to the Moon'  NEW SCIENTIST   'A riveting feat of
science writing'  ED YONG  author of An Immense World    Every living being throughout history
across time and geography  has gazed up at the same moon.   From the first prehistoric life
that crawled onto land guided by the power of the tides  to the division of time into months
and seasons for the first humans  the moon has driven the expansion and development of our
world.  It has inspired scientific discovery and culture from the ancient astronomers to the
scientific revolution of Copernicus and Galileo  from the 1969 Apollo landings to writers and
artists  and stirred an inexhaustible desire to know where we come from and how we got here. 
And as astronauts around the world prepare to return to the Moon - opening up new frontiers of
discovery  profit and politics - Our Moon tells the dazzling story of how the Moon has shaped
life as we know it  fuelled dramatic change across the globe and could be the key to humanity's
future.

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