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Una audaz epopeya sobre nuestro lugar en el universoLeigh crece en Rotterdam, cautivada por la escapatoria que le ofrece el puerto a su infeliz vida doméstica y a su irascible padre. Hechizada por el mundo submarino de su infancia, se especializa en biología marina y recorre el mundo para estudiar los organismos primitivos. Cuando se descubre una nueva fosa en el océano Atlántico, Leigh se une al equipo de exploración con la esperanza de encontrar evidencias de las primeras formas de vida de la Tierra. Lo que encuentra, en cambio, pone en duda todo lo que sabemos sobre nuestros inicios.Su descubrimiento lleva a Leigh al desierto de Mojave y a trabajar para una nueva y ambiciosa agencia espacial. A medida que profundiza en el trabajo de la agencia, se entera de que la fosa del Atlántico solo es uno de varios fenómenos inexplicables que están dándose por todo el mundo. Todas las piezas se unen para sugerir un patrón más allá de la comprensión humana. Leigh sabe que seguir trabajando allí implicará dejar atrás a su madre enferma y a su hermana menor, y se enfrenta a una elección imposible: quedarse con su familia o embarcarse en un viaje a través del cosmos.Explorando el mundo natural con el asombro y la reverencia que solemos reservar para las estrellas, Ascensión es una epopeya emotiva y profundamente inquisitiva que aborda las preguntas más importantes de la existencia para iluminar los detalles más sutiles del corazón humano. También muestra cómo, sin importar lo lejos que estemos y hasta qué punto hayamos perdido la esperanza, siempre intentaremos regresar a las personas y los lugares que son nuestro hogar.
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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.
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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.
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