The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
by Christopher Cokinos
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585428329
- ISBN 13
- 9781585428328
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Synopsis
Weaving natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers, a prizewinning poet and nature writer takes us from Antarctica to outer space to tell the epic story of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.Robert Peary, the fabled explorer who risked personal ruin— and the lives of his crew—in a mortally dangerous quest for massive iron meteorites in an Arctic wasteland.The NASA researcher who staked his reputation on a claim that Martian fossils fell from the sky and could be found in the Antarctic.A collector in the American West in the early 1900s who sacrificed home, marriage, and very nearly his sanity in a struggle to claim ownership of 15.5-ton meteorite.These characters and many other collectors, dreamers, schemers, and regular people caught up in the business and passion of shooting stars populate Christopher Cokinos' natural history, The Fallen Sky. Through their...
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- World of Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
- Author
- Christopher Cokinos
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1585428329
- ISBN 13
- 9781585428328
- Publisher
- Tarcher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2010-08
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