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We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. In this fascinating celebration of the Earth's fragile atmosphere, Gabrielle Walker traces a journey of groundbreaking scientific discovery from the first experiments in the Renaissance to recent findings in space.
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"Read this superb book and the simple act of breathing will never be the same again."
-- Mail on Sunday
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We don’t just live in the air. We live because of it. . . .
"Who knew air could be so interesting? Like the scientific mavericks she profiles, Gabrielle Walker had the freshness of vision to realize that within its presumed-nothingness lay the most fascinating, profound revelations about life on earth. This is science writing at its best: clear, witty, relevant, unbelievably interesting, and just plain great."-- Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers
"The subject is hot, the science is cool, and Gabrielle Walker's style is lighter than air. Warmly recommended." --Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch
"Extraordinary . . . The scientists are almost as interesting as their science."?Simon Singh
"[Walker provides] counter-intuitive delights... This is a fabulous introduction to the world above our heads."--Mail on Sunday (UK)
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- PublisherBloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 074759290X
- ISBN 13 9780747592907
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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