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Beagle; from a Sailing Ship to Mars Spacecraft |
Author: Pillinger, Collin:
ISBN: 0571223230
Description: Faber and Faber 2003 2003 740 g.; X, 166 pages, preface by author, aknowledgements. The text is illustrated with contemporary and modern colour photographs and illustrations, black-and-white illustrations and photography, cartoons and sketches. Black coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. A hint of rubbing to the book corners. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and pink titles to the front panel and white and black titles to the backstrip. Colour photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. A little rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges. " Britain is going to Mars. Beagle 2 -- a space and is shaped like a clan and no larger than a portable barbecue -- is about to make history. Named after HMS Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin travelled around the world, Beagle 2 has hitched a ride aboard the European Space Agency Mars Express. On reaching the red planet, this tiny British-based probe is designed to answer one big question: is there, or was there, life on Mars? In Beagle, Collin Pillinger explores the remarkable similarities between these two historic ships, the sailing ship and the spaceship, and their great voyages of exploration. Both were at the forefront of technology for the respective generations. HMS Beagle led to the discovery of the secret life on Earth -- can Beagle 2 possibly do the same for Mars?" -- from the front fold over panel blurb will stop digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Space Exploration
Book Number: 0107082
Keywords: Beagle -- Sailing Ship -- Spacecraft -- Exploration -- Mars
Price: $24.50 (AUD) |
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