Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe

by Charles S. Cockell

Book Overview

Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist's everyday conversations with his fellow humans--taxi drivers, to be precise. "This is a joy to read." --Publishers Weekly

If you've ever sat in the back seat of a taxi, you know that cabbies like to talk. Sports or politics, your job or theirs, taxi drivers are fine conversationalists on just about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674271831
• ISBN13: 9780674271838
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.3"