by Andrew Smith · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747563693
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«Moondust» is Andrew Smith's chronicle of the men who walked on the Moon, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving astronauts who walked on the Moon and interviews them to discover how that experience transformed their lives. The work combines history, reportage and personal memoir, reflecting on fame, mortality and the meaning of space exploration, with the Apollo programme as backdrop.
The original subtitle is «In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth». The book was shortlisted by the Richard & Judy book club at the British Book Awards 2006.
For readers with an interest in space exploration, the history of the Apollo programme and biographies of astronauts.
Sir Andrew Smith was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.
