Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning science writer. She writes for The Atlantic, the New York Times, New Scientist, Popular Science, Smithsonian Air & Space, and many other publications. She is a member of the group science blog The Last Word on Nothing. Boyle was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been the recipient of numerous writing awards throughout her career. Her work has been anthologised three times in The Best American Science & Nature Writing. Boyle is a former newspaper reporter, a former Space Camp attendee, and a lifelong Moon enthusiast.
Delightful . . . The moon, as this passionate and absorbing book
shows, is both fascinatingly strange and very much part of us
*Sunday Times*
Our Moon is superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work
of globe-trotting scholarship
*Telegraph*
Boyle makes good on her promise: after reading this book, you will
never look at the moon the same way again . . . fascinating
*New Statesman*
Boyle's long-standing fascination with the moon makes for an
exciting read, but it also means that Our Moon is a great resource
to dip back into after reading in its entirety . . . at its heart,
it is a love letter to the moon
*New Scientist*
Graceful . . . timely . . . The Moon is the only piece of a vast
universe that most of us will ever get to experience: All you have
to do is look up. Or, of course, look down into Boyle's new book,
which makes the moon feel closer than ever
*New York Times*
Our Moon skilfully combines science, anecdote and philosophy . . .
This engrossing book tells us so much about the Moon and space
exploration, but it also encourages readers to ponder on our planet
and our insignificant place in the universe
*Independent*
An aeon-spanning opus . . . fascinating and revelatory
*Sunday Independent*
Boyle's fascinating debut explores our scientific and cultural
relationship with the moon
*Observer*
Poetic . . . fascinating . . . especially timely
*Daily Mail*
I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a
lifetime of study. Fascinating insights into the Moon's origins and
history, but more than that, what it has meant to us, the people of
Earth. This book is a must-read for anyone who has looked up at the
Moon in wonder
*Chris Hadfield, author of AN ASTRONAUT'S GUIDE TO LIFE ON
EARTH*
Boyle explores humanity's changing relationship to the Moon: from
worshipping it as a god, to observing, exploring and then walking
upon its desolate surface. This is a beautiful, evocative hymn to
the intimate connection we have shared with our planet's cosmic
companion
*Lewis Dartnell, author of BEING HUMAN*
Glinting with intriguing facts and fascinating connections, Our
Moon reveals the astoundingly intimate relations between the
closest heavenly body, the Earth and all life as we know it.
Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science
and sentiment; a luminous read
*Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of KINDRED*
Our Moon is a riveting feat of science writing, which recasts that
most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily
extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original
sense of the word. I learned so much
*Ed Yong, author of AN IMMENSE WORLD*
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*
Our celestial neighbour has been like an invisible hand shaping
tidal cycles, life's rhythms, and evolutionary history for over
four billion years. Epic in scope - and almost poetic in its
narrative beauty - Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon will change how you
think about our planet, the Moon, and ourselves
*Neil Shubin, author of YOUR INNER FISH*
An excellent exploration of how the moon has shaped life on Earth .
. . Boyle's dexterous blend of science and cultural history is
elevated by her spry prose. This illuminates
*Publishers Weekly*
The Moon lights both our days and our nights, present in the sky
roughly half of our lives - and always orbiting, bound to our
planet. We often forget, though, that the Moon is also bound to us,
and we to it. Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon is a vivid and moving
exploration of that lunar impact, showing how influential the
pockmarked orb is and always has been. Boyle traces the Moon's
civilizational importance from the beginning of terrestrial life to
modern human society, revealing not just the scientific knowledge
of that history but how humans made those discoveries, and why they
matter. Our Moon is both robustly reported and compellingly
personal. Inside its pages, past and present collide, and science
and storytelling become one, as Boyle draws Earth's nearest
neighbour closer to its inhabitants
*Sarah Scoles, author of THEY ARE ALREADY HERE*
In telling the tale of Earth's oldest companion, Rebecca Boyle
offers an absorbing account of the human experience, from the
depths of philosophy to the trenches of war. Deftly written with a
poet's precision and scientific sensibility, Our Moon establishes
Boyle as one of preeminent nature writers of our time
*David W. Brown, author of THE MISSION*
Boyle inventories the ways in which the Moon's presence affects
life on Earth - influencing menstrual cycles, dictating the timing
of D Day - and how humans' conception of it has evolved . . .
Throughout, the author orbits a central idea: that understanding
the science and the history of the Moon may help to unlock
mysteries elsewhere in the universe
*The New Yorker*
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