Starman

ISBN-13: 9781408815540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Piers Bizony

Opis

Based on previously undisclosed material, this book tells the story of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. After his historic mission, Gagarin became a danger to himself and to the Soviet Union, and he died at the age of thirty-four.

Recenzje

'Starman takes us breakneck speed through Gagarin's strange trajectory...Without books like these to shelter it, history is eroded by propaganda and real heroes fall victim to spin' New Scientist

O autorze

Piers Bizony has written about aerospace and cosmology for a variety of magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been shortlisted for the NASA/Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Writing. He has written several books, the most recent of which, Atom, a tie-in book for a BBC TV series, tells the dramatic story of the rivalries and passions at play during the discovery of quantum physics. Jamie Doran is a multi-award-winning documentary maker. His most recent film, Guinea Pig Kids, exposes the use of New York children in highly toxic experiments funded, in part, by giant pharmaceutical companies. He has worked in television film production for twenty-five years, spending over seven years at BBC Television before establishing an independent television company.