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发表于2024-12-24
The Fallen Sky pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
A famed polar explorer who risked personal ruin—and the lives of his crew—in a quest for massive iron meteorites hidden in an Arctic wasteland.
A nervy, obscure professor who staked his life against the scientific indifference of his day to become the world’s most prominent meteorite collector and researcher.
An Australian scientist confronted with a geological mystery in the Outback—the key to which might yet unlock a secret of evolution on planet Earth.
These characters and many other collectors, researchers, dreamers, schemers, and ordinary people populate Christopher Cokinos’s The Fallen Sky. Through their foibles and successes, their adventures and tragedies, Cokinos unfolds the panoramic history of how science came to understand meteorites—the rocks that fall from space to the Earth—and how these stones reveal truths not only of the solar system, but of the human heart as well.
Long sought as trophies of exploratory success, scientific specimens, or even space-age novelties, meteorites have a long and complex hold on the human psyche. Their allure endures from tribal altars to high-tech labs, and Cokinos incisively explores the drama and history of our pursuit of the fallen sky. Over the course of more than seven years, he crisscrossed the globe from Greenland to the American Southwest, from Australia to Antarctica, following in the footsteps of explorers, collectors, and scientists, gaining access to their personal papers and documents, to try to understand the obsession that draws so many people to these fragments of iron and stone, these pieces of the universe that we can hold in our hands. This is an adventure story, a compelling work of first-person literary journalism, and a scientific history, all told through the lives of its remarkable characters—the eccentrics and geniuses who have committed themselves to understanding the stuff of life and death that comes from the sky.
Christopher Cokinos is an award-winning writer and poet, and a professor of English at Utah State University. He has received the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glasgow Prize for an emerging writer in nonfiction, and the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award.
诗人于坚曾说每个诗人的背后都有一张具体的地图。故乡、母语、人生场景。诗人的地图,必须来自实地的测量。空气、地形、河流的流速、山峰的海拔。诗人不过是一个土地测量员。某种意义上,写字的冲动就是来自对此地图的回忆、去蔽的努力、理想主义化、升华。乔伊斯乃是都伯林的...
評分诗人于坚曾说每个诗人的背后都有一张具体的地图。故乡、母语、人生场景。诗人的地图,必须来自实地的测量。空气、地形、河流的流速、山峰的海拔。诗人不过是一个土地测量员。某种意义上,写字的冲动就是来自对此地图的回忆、去蔽的努力、理想主义化、升华。乔伊斯乃是都伯林的...
評分诗人于坚曾说每个诗人的背后都有一张具体的地图。故乡、母语、人生场景。诗人的地图,必须来自实地的测量。空气、地形、河流的流速、山峰的海拔。诗人不过是一个土地测量员。某种意义上,写字的冲动就是来自对此地图的回忆、去蔽的努力、理想主义化、升华。乔伊斯乃是都伯林的...
評分诗人于坚曾说每个诗人的背后都有一张具体的地图。故乡、母语、人生场景。诗人的地图,必须来自实地的测量。空气、地形、河流的流速、山峰的海拔。诗人不过是一个土地测量员。某种意义上,写字的冲动就是来自对此地图的回忆、去蔽的努力、理想主义化、升华。乔伊斯乃是都伯林的...
評分诗人于坚曾说每个诗人的背后都有一张具体的地图。故乡、母语、人生场景。诗人的地图,必须来自实地的测量。空气、地形、河流的流速、山峰的海拔。诗人不过是一个土地测量员。某种意义上,写字的冲动就是来自对此地图的回忆、去蔽的努力、理想主义化、升华。乔伊斯乃是都伯林的...
The Fallen Sky pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024