Alex Latimer

The Space Race

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Vastrap. Our very own nuclear testing site, so far into the desert that the Russians and the Americans don't even have a clue about it. You don't mess with an Afrikaner, not if you don't want to get a proper klap.An unauthorised nuclear blast beyond belief at Vastrap Airbase outside Upington not only winds up the Americans, but also launches Africa's first spacecraft. Propelled by an engine harnessing the power of a nuclear bomb never disarmed in the eighties, the rocket leaves Earth without its pilot or crew.But how did this spaceship, designed by the previous government to extend the Afrikaner's history as a nation of pioneers, survive? And… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4152-0564-8
EAN: 9781415205648
Produktnummer: 27772604
Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 446 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Alex Latimer is an illustrator and author based in Cape Town whose picture books are published here and abroad. With his brother Patrick, he created the Business Day cartoon The Western Nostril. He is also the author and illustrator of The South African Alphabet and From Aardvark to Zuma. The Space Race is his first novel.