"Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page." --"The New York Times Book Review"
As debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne presents America's greatest space expeditions as the latest chapter in a continuous s[...]

"The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know it--the fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before. If one wants to understand just how completely the story of the human past is also the story of fire o[...]

It has become commonplace these days to speak of 'unpacking' texts. "Voice and Vision" is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art - that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential[...]