Packing for Mars
"An utterly fascinating account, made all the more entertaining by the author’s ever-amused tone."
BookPage
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- WW Norton & Co
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780393068474
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"An utterly fascinating account, made all the more entertaining by the author’s ever-amused tone."
BookPage
"An impish and adventurous writer with a gleefully inquisitive mind and stand-up comic’s timing."
Booklist
"The author’s writing comes across as reportorial, but with a clear sense of humor; even the footnotes are used to both informational and comedic effect."
Time Out New York
"Hilarious."
The New York Times Book Review
"A delightful, illuminating grab bag of space-flight curiosities."
Kirkus Reviews
"[Her] style is at its most substantial—and most hilarious—in the zero-gravity realm that Packing for Mars explores.… As startling as it is funny."
Janet Maslin - The New York Times
"This is the kind of smart, smirky stuff that Roach does so well."
Geoff Nicholson - San Francisco Chronicle
"Cool answers to questions about the void you didn’t even know you had."
People