EAN: 9781838956271

IN ASCENSION - MARTIN MACINNES KARTONIERT (TB)

Monumental' Telegraph 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Transcendent' New Scientist Leigh grew up in
Rotterdam  drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father.
Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood  she excels in marine biology  travelling the
globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean  Leigh
joins the exploration team  hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she
instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings. Her discovery
leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the
agency's work  she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena
from across the world  each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding.
Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining
mother and her younger sister  and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family  or to
embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos. Exploring the natural world with the
wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars  In Ascension is a compassionate  deeply
inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence  looks
inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart  and shows how - no matter how far
away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the
people and places we call home.

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