Our Moon: How Earths Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

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The Moon belongs to all of humanity. Every living being, across time and geography, has gazed up at the same moon.

In Our Moon award-winning science journalist Rebecca Boyle reminds us that the Moon is the secret to life on earth. From the first prehistoric life that crawled onto land guided by the power of the tides, to the division of time into months and seasons for the first humans, the Moon has driven the expansion and development of our world.

It has inspired scientific discovery and culture from the ancient astronomers to the scientific revolution of Copernicus and Galileo, from the 1969 Apollo landings to writers and artists, and stirred an inexhaustible desire to know where we come from and how we got here.

Even as astronauts around the world prepare to return to the Moon, opening up new frontiers of discovery, profit and politics, award-winning science journalist Rebecca Boyle shows us why it is the secret to our success.

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With a remarkable command of planetary science and human history Boyle provides a sweeping, lyrical new account of our cosmic neighbour, brilliantly reframing our relationship to a moon that intimately shaped, and continues to shape, the course of life on Earth -- Peter Brannen, author of THE ENDS OF THE WORLD

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Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning freelance journalist, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a member of the group science blog The Last Word on Nothing. Her work regularly appears in Scientific American, New Scientist, Aeon, Wired, Popular Science, and other publications, and has twice been anthologised in the Best American Science & Nature Writing.