An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere

We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. In this fascinating celebration of the Earth's fragile atmosphere, Gabrielle Walker traces a journey of groundbreaking scientific discovery from the first experiments in the Renaissance to recent findings in space.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN: 9780747592907
• Number of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm