Too Far From Home
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099513247
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

Too Far From Home

A Story of Life and Death in Space

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An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all - outer space.

On February 1, 2003, ten astronauts were orbiting the planet. Seven headed back to Earth on the space shuttle Columbia. They never made it. And the three men left behind found themselves too far from home.

Chris Jones chronicles the efforts of the beleaguered Mission Control in Houston and Moscow as they work frantically against the clock to bring their men safely back to Earth, ultimately settling on a plan that felt, at best, like a long shot. Yet even amid the danger, the call of space is a siren song, and Too Far From Home details beautifully the majesty and mystique of space travel, while reminding us all how perilous it is to soar beyond the sky.
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099513247
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Chris Jones

Chris Jones was born in London in 1973. He has written for Canada's National Post since 1998 and won the Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for outstanding young journalists. He lives in Toronto.

Praise for Too Far From Home

An absorbing and wonderfully detailed account

Entertainment Weekly

His style is down-to-earth, yet he takes exhilarating leaps page after page. The narrative is lively and informed, striking a fine balance between "the epic and the everyday" in space exploration, from mundane issues such as weightless bowel movements to terrifying threats such as wounds from space-trash fragments that could end in a horrifying death

USA Today

As good an account as you are likely to find of what it's like to commute to work a few hundred miles above the Earth... Chris Jones will have you on the edge of your seat

The Globe and Mail