Béla Fleck – Big Country
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Thanks for posting this. Bela Fleck grew up in NYC on Staten Island and like me, who grew up in Queens, was also attracted to the syncopated plectrum sounds of the 5-string bluegrass banjo of Earl Scruggs. When every other eight grade New York kid graduating elementary school was asking for either a guitar or a stereo system for graduation, I asked for a banjo.
I remember riding the the subway into Manhattan down to the original Pier 17, where the South Steet Seaport was later built, because in the summer they had a bluegrass festivals there. I idolized Bela Fleck but I never attained his virtuosity. Great memories, amazing music…innocent times.