Goodbye Moon
Andrew O’Hagan: Me and the Moon, 25 February 2010
The Book of the Moon
by Rick Stroud.
Doubleday, 368 pp., £16.99, May 2009,978 0 385 61386 6 Show More
by Rick Stroud.
Doubleday, 368 pp., £16.99, May 2009,
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
by Craig Nelson.
John Murray, 404 pp., £18.99, June 2009,978 0 7195 6948 7 Show More
by Craig Nelson.
John Murray, 404 pp., £18.99, June 2009,
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham.
Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £16.99, July 2009,978 1 4088 0402 5 Show More
by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham.
Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £16.99, July 2009,
“... we are, much more visible than our ancestors. The megaliths near Abu Simbel, the stones aligned to mark the moonrise and moonset at Stonehenge, the 5000-year-old stone circle at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis: they all appear to describe the extent of our capacity for wonder, the full midsummer Moon at the Callanish stones in certain years appearing ‘to skim ... ”