{"product_id":"9781939749055","title":"Adrift Among The Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume combines for the first time John Dickey's epic 49 canto \u003cem\u003eEarth: A Narrative in Verse \u003c\/em\u003e(updated for this volume with 5 new cantos), with his 23 poem composition \u003cem\u003eThe Solar System: A Tour in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the formation of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago, to the fate of the Sun as a fading white dwarf, six billion years from today, \u003cem\u003eEarth: A Narrative in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the epic of Earth's evolution in 49 cantos that document the struggle of irrepressible Life with Inevitable Death. Astronomy, geology and biology are melded in poems that employ and celebrate the sounds and symbols of science to describe the formation of planets, tectonic motions, climate change, catastrophic happenings, and the odyssey of terrestrial Life from single cells to complex organisms and finally back to single cells, the last earthlings. Sobering yet uplifting, the work presents Earth in the context of universal time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe verses of \u003cem\u003eThe Solar System: A Tour in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e visit the Sun, the planets, their moons and other celestial bodies inhabitting our solar system. These poems are offered as a celebration of the achievements of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century scientists, engineers, technicians and astronauts who ventured into space and transformed our knowledge of the solar system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JoSara MeDia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040392331504,"sku":"9781939749055","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939749055_p0.jpg?v=1763667513","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939749055","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}