Air-Borne The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
محمول بالهواء: التاريخ الخفي للحياة التي نتنفسها
One of _Smithsonian Magazine_‘s Ten Best Science Books of 2025 _The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down_ Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus. In _Air-Borne,_ award-winning _New York Times_ columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments. We meet the long-forgotten pioneers of aerobiology including William and Mildred Wells, who tried for decades to warn the world about airborne infections, only to die in obscurity.
Bibliographic Data
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Dutton |
| Publisher Address | duttonpublicity@penguinrandomhouse.com |
| Country | USA |
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| Language | English (EN) |
| Pages | 496 pages |
| Edition | first |
| Dimensions | 6×9 |
| ISBN | 978-0593473597 |
| Translation | Not Translated |
