The starship and the canoe
By: Kenneth Brower.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Dyson, Freeman J.; Dyson, George, 1953-
First sentence: As long as Freeman Dyson can remember, his thoughts have been on the stars.
Description: From jacket:  Freeman Dyson is an astrophysicist, one of America's most renowned and most imaginatively creative.  His son George, with no degree to his name, lives by himself in a tree house in British Columbia.  The elder Dyson looks  to the stars for man's salvation; he wants to go there himself, in the vanguard of a great migration...The younger Dyson - as "earthbound" as his father is "star-crossed" - looks  to the wilderness regions of our own planet and sees human destiny in the renewal of man's pretechnological resources.