{"product_id":"voyagers","title":"Voyagers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA journey through history and across the planet, Voyagers shows how exploration has led humanity to the brink of destruction-and how it might help us face the challenges of the future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful, important book, charged with the questing rigour of science and the poetic hauntings of a restless spirit.' KIM MAHOOD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Moving effortlessly from the immensity of planetary time to profoundly human questions about love and hope, Voyagers is a remarkable achievement.' JAMES BRADLEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the beginning, we have been wanderers. Our explorations have rewarded us with land, resources, food and knowledge, but have also pushed planetary systems to breaking point-and still we seek new seas to fish, oil deposits to drill, forests to fell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning science writer Lauren Fuge journeys from the fjords of the Pacific Northwest to the geology of outback Australia to the edges of the known universe, and asks: what drives our urge to explore? Can we find in our voyaging history the tools to reimagine our future?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVoyagers is an electrifying adventure, a compelling personal narrative, a hymn to the Earth-and a call to action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Fuge is an accomplished science writer with a literary sensibility, both of which she demonstrates in this intriguing book...This is no airy-fairy travelogue, but an activist's call for us to stop and reconsider how we travel now.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant. This book holds questions that must be addressed as matters of physical urgency. Please read it. And please take up fighting for those questions as you can.' \u003cb\u003eAshley Hay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Voyagers is a journey worth taking for readers interested in humanity's interaction with nature, a history of exploration, or a memoir of one woman's quest to embrace her own restlessness.'\u003cb\u003e Antony Morris,  \u003ci\u003e Books and Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Lauren Fuge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516756492349,"sku":null,"price":35.14,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781922790774.jpg?v=1787572010","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/voyagers","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}