Download e-book for kindle: Where the Sky Touched the Earth: The Cosmological Landscapes by Don Lago

By Don Lago

ISBN-10: 1943859345

ISBN-13: 9781943859344

The landscapes of the yankee Southwest—the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Sedona pink rocks—have lengthy stuffed people with ask yourself approximately nature. this is often the house of Lowell Observatory, the place astronomers first came across facts that the universe is increasing; Meteor Crater, the place Apollo astronauts educated for the moon; and local American tribes with their very own old, wealthy methods of in relation to the cosmos. With the private, poetic sort of some of the best literary nature writing, Don Lago explores how those landscapes have provided people a deeper feel of reference to the universe. whereas so much nature writing by no means leaves the floor, Lago is without doubt one of the few writers who has utilized it to the universe, looking ties among people and the astronomical forces that gave us birth.

Nowhere else on the planet is the hyperlink among earth and sky so strong. Lago witnesses a sun eclipse over the Grand Canyon, climbs primeval volcanos, and sees the universe in tree earrings. via ageless local American ceremonies, sleek telescopes, or even desires of alien craft, Lago, who's not just a poet yet a real thinker of technological know-how, strives to discover order and that means on the planet and brings out the Southwest’s attractiveness and mystery.

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