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corgi pbk,1998
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About the Author
Richard Preston received The Overseas Press Club of America's 1995 Whitman Bassow Award for "best reporting in any medium on environmental issues" forThe Hot Zone. First Light, Preston's first book, won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. He is a regular contributor toThe New Yorker. Preston lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and children.
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At the Palomar observatory in California, a team of astronomers are looking at the edge of the universe and seeking to unlock the secrets contained there. This is their story - one of radical scientific advances, told through the characters involved, in the quest for ultimate knowledge.
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- PublisherCorgi
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0552997846
- ISBN 13 9780552997843
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages320
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