You Can't Get There From Here

You Can't Get There from HereThere is a striking though clumsy pharase from the autobiography of the 19th Century writer Richard Jefferies that has stuck in my mind for many years: "The unattainable blue of the flower of the sky." Unattainable: that is a word we seldom use these days, now that men have reached the greatest heights and depths of Earth and are preparing to journey far beyond the sky. Yet only a century ago the North and South Poles were utterly unknown, much of Africa wa...