{"product_id":"falling-to-earth-9780593317761","title":"Falling to Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stirring memoir about finding home in an off-grid cabin outside of a wildly remote town, and a gorgeous meditation on how to live intentionally—by the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLands of Lost Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToo steep by a few degrees, and you burn up from atmospheric friction. Too shallow, and you bounce back into space, never to return. But a close pass at just the right slant and speed can nudge a life out of one orbit into another.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    At 8:43 am on January 18, 2000, a fireball from outer space exploded over a frozen lake near Atlin, a five-hundred-person town in British Columbia near the Alaskan border. The conditions that frigid morning were perfect, and the fireball would yield some of the most pristine meteorite samples ever recovered, containing the building blocks of life itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Four years later, Kate Harris landed in roughly the same spot. Training to be an astrobiologist, she was intent on travelling to the most alien environments she could find. She hoped to explore the potential for biology on other worlds and ultimately follow a meteorite’s flight path in reverse, leaving Earth behind. Instead, a chance encounter with Atlin set her on a different trajectory, one less focused on defining what life \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e so much as with asking: how should we live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Blending memoir, philosophy, science, history, and exquisite nature writing, \u003ci\u003eFalling to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of wanderlust gone local in a place that, like the fireball and life itself, refuses to be pinned down. Staying put in Atlin for nearly a decade, Harris finds her most thrilling adventure yet. And in living in a cabin in the woods, she discovers the paradox at the heart of self-reliance: only community makes life possible.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":66003892797830,"sku":"9780593317761","price":30.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780593317761.jpg?v=1790159958","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/falling-to-earth-9780593317761","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}