Carrying the Fire
13 June 2019
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review
In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history.
In this remarkable memoir, Michael Collins conveys, in a...
Details
13 June 2019
560 pages
9781509896578
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Collins tells what his space journeys meant to him as a human being [and] discusses the role of man amid the multitudinous mechanical marvels . . . Profoundly affectingThe New Yorker
Michael Collins can write . . . No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividlyThe New York Times Book Review
A splendid and affirmative book . . . A magnificent piece of exposition alive with humour, candid in its anxiety, very sensitive in its appreciation of the men involved.Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly