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020			_a9781529922936
037			_cPurchased _nAmazon
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bSAM/OR
100			_aSamantha Harvey
245			_aORBITAL
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260			_aDublin _bVintage - Penguin Books _c2024
300			_g137
500			_a The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. A book of wonder, Orbital is nature writing from space and an unexpected and profound love letter to life on Earth Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
650			_aNovel
650			_aFiction
942			_cLEN
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999			_c194092 _d194092