Author:
Sedgwick, Marcus, 1968-2022, author.
Edition Statement:First American edition.
Imprint:New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2015.
Description359 pages ; 22 cm
Note:"First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Orion Children's Books, London."
Note:Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.