Interplanetary Flight (Second Impression)

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Second Impression. London: Temple Press Limited, (1951). 8vo. Original light blue cloth hardcover in original price-clipped dust jacket. Pages: viii, 164.

Very good in like dust jacket. Dust jacket price-clipped, some rubbing and chipping along edges and browning to spine. Hardcover bindings excellent, square and tight. Minor rubbing to edges and corners. Contents very good, some foxing here and there, and some mild age toning at edges. Otherwise, bright and clean.

Subtitle: An Introduction to Astronautics

Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction writer and inventor, who is widely regarded as a key figure in the popularisation of space travel. His screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was co-written with Stanley Kubrick, is considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. For many years Arthur C. Clarke, along with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, were considered the 'Big Three' of science fiction writing. Clarke also wrote a number of extremely influential non-fiction works, such as this one.

Interplanetary Flight was Clarke's first work of non-fiction and is a short introduction to space exploration. The work was written to be accessible to readers with a high school level of scientific education. It also contains a short mathematical appendix for readers not familiar with some of the included formulae.

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