Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space - Softcover

Chris Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099513242 ISBN 13: 9780099513247

Publisher: Vintage Books USA, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Jones was a sportswriter at the National Post, where he won an award as Canada's outstanding young journalist. He joined Esquire as a contributing editor and sports columnist, and became a writer at large when he won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing for the story that became the basis for this book. His work has also appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Review:

"An absorbing and wonderfully detailed account" * Entertainment Weekly * "His style is down-to-earth, yet he takes exhilarating leaps page after page. The narrative is lively and informed, striking a fine balance between "the epic and the everyday" in space exploration, from mundane issues such as weightless bowel movements to terrifying threats such as wounds from space-trash fragments that could end in a horrifying death" * USA Today * "As good an account as you are likely to find of what it's like to commute to work a few hundred miles above the Earth... Chris Jones will have you on the edge of your seat" * The Globe and Mail *

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099513242
• ISBN 13: 9780099513247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320