Beyond the Known
How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Beyond the Known
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Andrew Rader
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Andrew Rader
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For the first time in history, the human species has the technology to destroy itself. But having developed that power, humans are also able to leave Earth and voyage into the vastness of space. After millions of years of evolution, we’ve arrived at the point where we can settle other worlds and begin the process of becoming multi-planetary. How did we get here? What does the future hold for us?
Divided into four accessible sections, Beyond the Known examines major periods of discovery and rediscovery, from Classical Times, when Phoenicians, Persians and Greeks ventured forth; to The Age of European Exploration, which saw colonies sprout on nearly every continent; to The Era of Scientific Inquiry, when researchers developed brand new tools for mapping and travelling further; to Our Spacefaring Future, which unveils plans currently underway for settling other planets and, eventually, travelling to the stars.
A Mission Manager at SpaceX with a light, engaging voice, Andrew Rader is at the forefront of space exploration. As a gifted historian, Rader, who has won global acclaim for his stunning breadth of knowledge, is singularly positioned to reveal the story of human exploration that is also the story of scientific achievement. Told with an infectious zeal for travelling beyond the known, Beyond the Known illuminates how very human it is to emerge from the cave and walk towards an infinitely expanding horizon.©2019 Andrew Rader (P)2019 Simon & Schuster UK
Critic Reviews
'Beyond the Known is an engaging, full-colour route map showing us how we got here, and where we’re now destined to go.' (Tim Marshall, author of the bestselling Prisoners of Geography)
'A thrilling and irresistible history of human exploration, Andrew Rader’s Beyond the Known shows as much admiration for the Polynesians who conquered the Pacific in outrigger canoes as for the astronauts who will take us to distant planets. Celebrating discoverers from every continent, this is world history at its best.' (Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Oxford, and author of the international bestsellers, The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans)
'In Beyond the Known Andrew Rader achieves something almost as ambitious as the pioneers he writes about: he retraces the 10,000-year history of exploration, from the Stone Age to the Space Age, in a single book-sized expedition. As the centuries flew by, I learned something new on every page.' (Ken Jennings, New York Times bestselling author of Maphead)
'Scintillating, coruscating, Beyond the Known shows just how powerful the human urge to travel, to explore, to move always has been and always will be. It is a light on the past - and for the future.' (Anthony Pagden, author of The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters)
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- Anonymous User
- 07-05-2022
Barely OK
I found the author's halting reading style grating and very annoying and it detracts from a just OK book. A major problem is that any near future history is immediately doomed when it becomes out of date at the instant of publication and this book is no exception. Worth a listen I guess if you were happy with 2019 and want to reminisce through past centuries but don't expect any significant or even unexpected revelations of our future history. The author also appears to be a Musk fan boy which may concern some in light of current events.
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