The Grand Tour: Traveller's Guide to the Solar System - Softcover

Miller, Ron; Hartmann, William K.

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9781563050312: The Grand Tour: Traveller's Guide to the Solar System

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ISBN 10: 1563050315 ISBN 13: 9781563050312

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 1993

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Excellent graphics distinguish this armchair guide to the solar system. --Booklist

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A DAZZLING JOURNEY

The trunks are packed, your passport's in order. But instead of sailing to Le Havre for a Cook's tour of the Continent, you're embarking on a voyage through the solar system. That is the wonder of THE GRAND TOUR.

Originally published in 1981 and now completely updated by the scientific findings of the past decade, the revised edition of THE GRAND TOUR includes 10 new chapters, 52 new and/or revised paintings, 24 new photographs, and new drawings and maps. Through its unique marriage of art and fact, the book transports readers to unimaginable places-worlds of pure ice and utter night, of volcanic tumult and swirling acid clouds, of deep cut canyons and startingly beautiful vistas. From the vast reaches of Jupiter to tiny frozen Rhea, orbiting like a snowball around Saturn, it takes us on a journey of astonishing proportions.

Astronomer William K. Hartmann is internationally known as a planetary scientist, painter, and writer. Ron Miller, a former director of the Albert Einstein Spacearium at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is widely known for his astronomical and science-fiction paintings. Their other collaborations include Out of the Cradle, Cycles of Fire, and The History of Earth.

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Originally published in 1981, "The Grand Tour" takes readers on an imaginary trip through every corner of the solar system. This seventh edition has been completely revised and updated.

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