This Island Earth

Washington, D.C: NASA, 1970. First Edition. Oversized format. Illustrated throughout. Slight evidence of a removed bookplate on the front pastedaown, else a very good plus bright copy with some very minor foxing without dust jacket as issued. A remarkable document of NASA’s early color photographs from outer space of the planet Earth. With offers much information about Earth’s geography, meterological patterns, geological history, etc. A quote from Archibald MacLeish opens the text: “To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal (truncated) silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now that they are truly brothers.” (Inventory #: 12738E)