Overview
This new title in Lucent's World History series examines human's exploration of space, beginning with the earliest civilizations' observations of the movement of the moon, the sun, the planets, and the stars up to the modern explorations of the outer reaches of our solar system and the universe.
Features & Benefits
- Vivid writing, full-color photographs and extensive use of fully cited primary and secondary source quotations provide a sense of immediacy.
- Sidebars, visual time lines, indexes, and annotated bibliographies, which appear in every volume, offer a wealth of additional information as well as provide launching points for further discussion and study.