Apollo's Fire
By Michael Sims
(Viking Adult, Hardcover, 9780670063284, 320pp.)
Publication Date: October 2007
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (November 2008)
Categories: Earth Sciences - General, Folklore & Mythology
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The critically acclaimed author brings a scientist's curiosity and a poet's soul to a delightful tour of a single day on Earth
Most of us do not give a second thought to the elemental rhythms of daily life. In Apollo's Fire, Michael Sims sets out to open our eyes--literally--to the miraculous events that lie underneath the oldest story on Earth: the passing of a single day. In a profound and witty narrative that begins in the darkness before dawn, progresses through morning, noon, evening, and ends, fittingly, back in darkness, Sims takes us on an exhilarating ride through the oft- overlooked journey that all of us make every day.
Michael Sims is the author of Adam's Navel, a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book, and Darwin's Orchestra, as well as editor of The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel and other books. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review and has written for magazines, museum exhibitions, radio programs, and educational films.
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