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Orbital - ‘A singular talent’ Nathan Filer
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Orbital - ‘A singular talent’ Nathan Filer
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List price R480
Loot Price R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
You Save R85 (18%)
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The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst
of hopeful colour. A novel of wonder, Orbital is nature writing
from space and an unexpected love letter to life on Earth 'This
generation's Virginia Woolf' Telegraph Six astronauts rotate in
their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect
meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the
limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they
watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning
past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and
deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless
shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although
separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News
reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts
of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island
and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its
destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations,
their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt
more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life
without earth? What is earth without humanity? 'Harvey writes with
hypnotic power and poetic precision about - well, about everything'
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General
Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Samantha Harvey
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Dimensions: |
204 x 132 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78733-434-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-78733-434-1 |
Barcode: |
9781787334342 |
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