Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Orbital by Samantha HarveyThe earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. A book of wonder, Orbital is nature writing from space and an unexpected and profound love letter to life on EarthSix astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet,

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