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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

★ PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ★ Royal Society Science Book Prize

Emily Levesque uses The Last Stargazers to investigate the Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers through a carefully framed biographical portrait. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The Last Stargazers leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved.

Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication date: Aug 04, 2020
Format: Print edition
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781492681076

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