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The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
by Cokinos, Christopher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585427209
- ISBN 13
- 9781585427208
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tarcher, 2009-07-30. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light wear to bottom edges with a remainder mark to text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows a 1.5" closed tear to rear panel, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 517pp.
Synopsis
Weaving natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers, a prizewinning poet and nature writer takes us from Antarctica to outer space to tell the epic story of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.Robert Peary, the fabled explorer who risked personal ruin— and the lives of his crew—in a mortally dangerous quest for massive iron meteorites in an Arctic wasteland.The NASA researcher who staked his reputation on a claim that Martian fossils fell from the sky and could be found in the Antarctic.A collector in the American West in the early 1900s who sacrificed home, marriage, and very nearly his sanity in a struggle to claim ownership of 15.5-ton meteorite.These characters and many other collectors, dreamers, schemers, and regular people caught up in the business and passion of shooting stars populate Christopher Cokinos' natural history, The Fallen Sky. Through their...
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- Chaparral Books
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- Title
- The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
- Author
- Cokinos, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1585427209
- ISBN 13
- 9781585427208
- Publisher
- Tarcher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009-07-30
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 26 oz
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Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Remainder Mark
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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