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The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
de Christopher Cokinos
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585427209
- ISBN 13
- 9781585427208
- Librería
-
Caldwell, Idaho, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Tarcher, July 2009. Hardcover. Used - Good. The Rubaiyat LLC is a small, used bookstore in Caldwell, Idaho. All books are fair to good or better, no library copies unless specifically listed.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- The Rubaiyat LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 41603
- Título
- The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
- Autor
- Christopher Cokinos
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1585427209
- ISBN 13
- 9781585427208
- Editorial
- Tarcher
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- July 2009
- Páginas
- 528
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
The Rubaiyat LLC
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Caldwell, Idaho
Sobre The Rubaiyat LLC
The Rubaiyat LLC is a small, used bookstore in Caldwell, Idaho. We have been selling books since January of 2011.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
