This Island Earth (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold- brothers who know now that they are truly brothers.
-Archibald MacLeish
A person strolling through a flower garden, enjoying the colors and fragrances, perceives a very different reality than does an ant hurrying along in the dirt, or a hawk lazily orbiting high above. Each living creature sees a reality that is only part of the whole, a coexisting segment that reflects the sensors that make the perception, and their position and field of vision. Whether the reality perceived is a flower garden or a planet, a new point of view can give freshly illuminating insights, as conducive to understanding as the panorama revealed to the first prehistoric man who scaled a mountain and thereby, sensed the position of his home valley in the scheme of things. The new art of space explorati

Table of Contents

Near a Star Called Sun 2; The Earth/Moon "double planet" stands out among the spheres circling our star; The Restless Atmosphere 16; Its moods affect us all New techniques have begun to kelp us read its infinite variety; The Waters of Earth 40; All life began in them Yet the seas are Still our planet's least-tapped resource; The Lands of Earth 62; The kieh places, the dry places, and the rivers tell us what happened in the past; The Hand of Man 94; His activities have barely scratched the globe, but are increasingly affecting it; Across North America 116; Its mountain ranges, plains, and coasts can now be seen from new vantage points; Beyond This Island Earth 162; We liaue begun a new kind of exploration, with new vehicles, and endless horizons

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