{"product_id":"going-to-the-moon-hardback-9781478033387","title":"Going to the Moon (Hardback) 9781478033387","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGoing to the Moon\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSally Ashton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478033387\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e148 pages, 10 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e12.7 x 17.8 x 1.2 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“When in 1972 my mum obtained photographs and other memorabilia straight from NASA because her four-year-old son was fascinated by the Moon, we didn’t know that I would be endorsing this book. But here I am: the Eagle has landed. As Sally Ashton tells the reader in luminous, engaging prose, anyone who has felt a tide or looked into the sky has been to the Moon. It’s magical and it’s real. This is a wonderful book about all that.” –Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English at Rice University. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eGoing to the Moon \u003c\/i\u003elooks bravely and intimately at the ironies of our contemporary relationship to Earth’s only satellite. Sally Ashton has an uncommon story to tell about her own relationship to the moon, even as her lyrical prose zooms in on a surpassingly universal human experience: gazing up at that “crisp circumference” in the sky we all share.\"--Erika Howsare, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers will find this accessible and thought-provoking.\"—Sara Verstynen, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Balancing past and present lunar fascination with earthbound foresight, \u003ci\u003eGoing to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is an eloquent and engaging memoir.\"—Meg Nola, \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGoing to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Sally Ashton explores what the Moon has meant to her, and humanity as well as what we all stand to lose in the light of imminent lunar exploitation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2022, poet Sally Ashton learned that one of her poems would be included in a time capsule to be sent to the Moon via Astrobotic’s 2024 Griffin\/VIPER as part of the Lunar Codex project. For her, this event seemed like the high point in a life spent chasing the Moon, from a childhood inspired by the space race of the 1960s to an adulthood spent in contemplation and conversation with the sky. In \u003ci\u003eGoing to the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, Ashton marvels at the Moon’s powerful influence since the dawn of humanity—how we have, in our own ways, gone to the Moon, and what we have found. Contemplating lunar settlement in the light of history, culture, the rise of the space industry, and geopolitical conflict, Ashton shares her sense of wonder at the simple beauty of our unchanged Moon and reveals what is at stake in our contemporary attempts to colonize it.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. “\u003cbr\u003eFly Me to the Moon”\u003cbr\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. “\u003cbr\u003eMoon River”\u003cbr\u003e  10\u003cbr\u003e 3. “\u003cbr\u003eIn the Beginning . . .”\u003cbr\u003e  16\u003cbr\u003e 4. “\u003cbr\u003eMr. Moonlight!”\u003cbr\u003e  26\u003cbr\u003e 5. “\u003cbr\u003eThat’\u003cbr\u003es AmorÉ\u003cbr\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e  39\u003cbr\u003e 6. “\u003cbr\u003eWhat They Should Have Sent”\u003cbr\u003e  55\u003cbr\u003e 7. Countdown  68\u003cbr\u003e 8. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Moon Belongs to Everyone”\u003cbr\u003e  89\u003cbr\u003e 9. “\u003cbr\u003eGoodnight Moon”\u003cbr\u003e  100\u003cbr\u003e 10. “\u003cbr\u003eEveryone’\u003cbr\u003es Gone to the Moon”\u003cbr\u003e  110\u003cbr\u003e Afterwards Afterword  123\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  129\u003cbr\u003e Going for More . . . Moon!  131\u003cbr\u003e Notes  133\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026667800,"sku":"9781478033387","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/going-to-the-moon-hardback-9781478033387","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}