Stephen J. Pyne

Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery

by Stephen J. Pyne

A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacy Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer...

How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History

by Stephen J. Pyne

Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This...

The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene

by Lydia V. Pyne & Stephen J. Pyne

An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age—from the author of How the Canyon Became Grand

From a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental...

Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery

by Stephen J. Pyne

"Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page." --The New York Times Book Review

As debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne...