Earth, Life and the Universe: Exploring Our Cosmic Ancestry - Softcover

Tritton, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954099109 ISBN 13: 9780954099107

Publisher: Curved Air Publications Limited, 2001

Synopsis

A clearly written book for the general reader on the search for extraterrestrial life. It is beautifully illustrated and provides readers with a substantial overview of life on Earth before taking them to potential habitats elsewhere in the Solar System and in the newly discovered planetary systems beyond our own. This book is bang up to date and is an absolute must for anyone really interested in learning about our cosmic ancestry. The author is enthusiastic about making the latest scientific discoveries understandable to a wider public. He devotes much of his time to talking about astronomy to non-scientific audiences. Reading this book will open up the entire subject to the reader who will then have a far better understanding of the subject as and when new discoveries are made and reported during the course of the next decade or so.

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Review

A clearly written book on the search for extraterrestial life. -- Dr Barrie W Jones, Head of Physics and Astronomy, Open Univ.

A masterly account of the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe... -- Professional prepublication reviews: Sir Patrick Moore CBE FRS

A masterly account...this is the best book of its kind to have appeared in recent years. -- Sir Patrick Moore CBE FRS

From the Publisher

This book is highly topical, drawing togther two quite different disciplines; astronomy and biology. Astrobiology is now a serious science an understanding of which will be of enormous assistance in appreciating the subject of the emergence of life on earth and the mutual and inseparable evolution of living things and the plant that supports them. The book will lead readers beyond Earth, into our Solar system as well as elsewhere in the Universe, bringing news of recent discoveries of tantalisingly lifelike signs in meteorites from Mars and new planets orbiting other stars.

Edition details

• Publisher: Curved Air Publications Limited
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954099109
• ISBN 13: 9780954099107
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Stanger Tony
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Willsher Peter