Red Limit: the Search for the Edge of the Universe

Ferris, Timothy (Read By)

ISBN 10: 0787109355 / ISBN 13: 9780787109356

Published by Audio Literature, 1997

About this Item

4 cassettes. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # KensBooks2.0039847

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Limit: the Search for the Edge of the Universe
• Publisher: Audio Literature
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787109355
• ISBN 13: 9780787109356
• Binding: Audiobook cassette
• Edition: Abridged.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Hailed by the critics as a classic modern science writing, The Red Limit was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize. 4 cassettes.

About the Author

Timothy Ferris's works include Seeing in the Dark, The Mind's Sky (both New York Times best books of the year), and The Whole Shebang (listed by American Scientist as one of the one hundred most influential books of the twentieth century). A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ferris has taught in five disciplines at four universities. He is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former editor of Rolling Stone. His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. A contributor to CNN and National Public Radio, Ferris has made three prime-time PBS television specials: The Creation of the Universe, Life Beyond Earth, and Seeing in the Dark. He lives in San Francisco.