| Synopsis: |
A landmark in popular science publishing, Cosmos is a giant-format account of the ultimate journey - a 13.7-billion-light-year- (or 130-billion-trillion kilometre-) voyage from our world, past planets, moons, stars, nebulae, white dwarfs and black holes, right through the to the edge of the universe and the beginning of time. Including some of science's most spectacular photographs, an accessible introduction by Dava Sobel and commentary by Giles Sparrow, this luxurious hand-finished and slipcased volume will fascinate and inform in equal measure. |