STARMAN: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND OF YURI GAGARIN (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 13000510B39898

English Summary/英文概要： On April 12 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and venture into space. An icon of the 20th century, he also became a danger to himself and a threat to the Soviet state. At the age of 34, he was killed in a plane crash. Based on KGB files, restricted documents from Russian space authorities, and interviews with his friends and colleagues, this biography of the Russian cosmonaut reveals a man in turmoil: torn apart by powerful political pressures, fighting a losing battle against alcoholism and rebelling against the cruelties of a corrupt totalitarian regime.

2011 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Gagarin’s flight. This new edition of Starman includes a new afterword that celebrates the importance of that momentous expedition and reflects on Gagarin’s legacy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： First Man in Space
2011年人類探索外太空正式邁入50周年。1961年4月12日前蘇聯太空人尤里·加加林(Yuri Gagarin)搭乘東方一號完成人類首次太空飛行。七年後因戰鬥機訓練意外身亡，走完短暫三十四年人生。
出生於貧農家庭，曾當過冶金工人。他是如何成就人類太空史上不朽的一頁。他的成功超越了冷戰的隔閡。即使到了今日蘇聯瓦解，他仍是俄羅斯人心中永遠的驕傲！
作者訪問加加林身前的朋友、同事，帶領讀者認識加加林不同的一面。除此之外並提到當時計劃背後的故事，及蘇維埃時期航太科技的發展。(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Other rights sold: Chinese, simplified characters (China Youth Press), Lithuanian (Versus Aureus), Russian (Azbooka-Atticus). Film rights optioned to Blue Ice Pictures on behalf of writer and director Steven Silver.

Reviews:
‘Starman takes us breakneck speed through Gagarin’s strange trajectory…Without books like these to shelter it, history is eroded by propaganda and real heroes fall victim to spin’---New Scientist

‘A riveting account of Gagarin’s life … Starman brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the time’---European

‘Starman skilfully achieves two distinct objectives: The uncovering of much of the mystery around one of mankind’s finest periods, and a full and respectful acknowledgement that its many great heroes, both sung and unsung, were, first and foremost, human beings’---Moscow Times

‘Starman was worth writing and is definitely worth reading’---Daily Telegraph

About the Author/作者介绍： Piers Bizony has written about aerospace and cosmology for a variety of magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been shortlisted for the NASA/Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Writing. He has written several books, the most recent of which, Atom, a tie-in book for a BBC TV series, tells the dramatic story of the rivalries and passions at play during the discovery of quantum physics.
Piers Bizony長年為歐美各雜誌撰寫航太、宇宙學的專欄，並曾入圍相關獎項。
Jamie Doran is a multi-award-winning documentary maker. His most recent film, Guinea Pig Kids, exposes the use of New York children in highly toxic experiments funded, in part, by giant pharmaceutical companies. He has worked in television film production for twenty-five years, spending over seven years at BBC Television before establishing an independent television company.
Jamie Doran是名獲獎無數的紀錄片工作者。在成立獨立電視公司前，從事電視節目製作長達二十五年，其中有七年的時間是在BBC中度過。近期的作品為The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

Format:照片

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: UK/US (Bloomsbury), Chinese, simplified (China Youth Press),Lithuanian (De Libris), Russian (Azbooka-Atticus).

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