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,
“... going to be around for a while, I thought, so we should probably try to get along. I only wish Rick Stroud’s book had been available then. It is the most surprising, capacious and elegant book about the Moon you could imagine. First, we have the familiar facts. The Moon is 240,000 miles from the Earth. The surface temperature is 134ºC. Age of the ... ”
