Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos
Perseus Books Group, September 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good / Very Good. Item #265491
ISBN: 073820207X
This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered, as an alien "translator's note" reveals, sixty million years in earth's future--the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odyssey. Astrophysicist Mitchell Begelman takes the reader to far-distant shores, across a vast ocean of time, in a narrative that zips along at just below light speed. We travel to the center of the Milky Way, witness the births and deaths of stars, almost perish in the crushing forces at the perimeter of a black hole--and all the while Begelman explains in clear and vibrant prose the way things work in the cosmos. A powerful imaginative work that is thoroughly grounded both in history and in the latest in astrophysical thinking and observation, Turn Right at Orion is serious science that reads like fiction.
Astrophysicist Begelman takes the reader to far-distant shores in this account of an epic astronomical journey in a tale told by an early 21st century human sailor across the stars. Nice clean copy all round.
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