Gabrielle Walker

An Ocean of Air (Book)

Gabrielle Walker

ISBN:9780747581901

In 1960 Joe Kittinger fell to earth from the edge of space and lived. Inside a pressure suit, attached to a huge helium balloon, Kittinger freefell from where the earth's atmosphere met space - an appalling...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

USD $25.83

 

An Ocean of Air (Book)

Gabrielle Walker

ISBN:9780747592907

We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. In this fascinating celebration of the Earth's fragile atmosphere...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

USD $17.42

 

Snowball Earth (Book)

Gabrielle Walker

ISBN:9780747560517

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet? Paul Hoffman, a brilliant and irascible scientist at Harvard, claims that the Earth experienced just such a climate cataclysm 700 million years ago...more details
Format:Hardcover  

USD $32.29

 

Snowball Earth (Book)

Gabrielle Walker

ISBN:9780747568506

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet? A global adventure story and a fascinating account of scientist Paul Hoffman's quest to prove his maverick Snowball Earth theory...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

USD $16.13