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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

byStephen Walker

Stephen Walker uses Beyond to investigate the Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space through a carefully framed biographical portrait. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Harper

Publication date

Apr 13, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

512

ISBN

9780062978158