Product Description
Our Moon: A Human History
Author: Rebecca Boyle
Format: Paperback
Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024
‘I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study’
CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Every living being throughout history, across time and geography, has gazed up at the same moon.
From the first prehistoric life that crawled onto land guided by the power of the tides, to the division of time into months and seasons for the first humans, the moon has driven the expansion and development of our world.
It has inspired scientific discovery and culture from the ancient astronomers to the scientific revolution of Copernicus and Galileo, from the 1969 Apollo landings to writers and artists, and stirred an inexhaustible desire to know where we come from and how we got here.
And as astronauts around the world prepare to return to the Moon – opening up new frontiers of discovery, profit and politics – Our Moon tells the dazzling story of how the Moon has shaped life as we know it, fuelled dramatic change across the globe and could be the key to humanity’s future.
‘Passionate and absorbing’ — SUNDAY TIMES
‘Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship’ — TELEGRAPH
‘Boyle’s writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read’ — REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred
‘You will never look at the Moon the same way again . . . fascinating’ — NEW STATESMAN
‘A riveting feat of science writing’ — ED YONG, author of An Immense World
‘Engrossing’ — INDEPENDENT
For custom orders and quotes: shop@schoolspace.co.za
© 2026 Schoolspace. This product description is the exclusive intellectual property of the publisher, protected under copyright law. Unauthorized use, adaption, or copying is strictly prohibited.
