Raoul Schrott's book is the result of an intense engagement with today's knowledge about the world. From the Big Bang to the formation of the planet and beyond, it makes a grand attempt to translate our scientific insights into literary form and to illustrate them through individual life stories. In varying poetic forms, a broad narrative panorama unfolds. In a second part, Raoul Schrott summarizes our current state of knowledge in a non-fiction format. By linking poetry and science, he dares to create a modern counterpart to Alexander von Humboldt's "Cosmos." The Earth can hardly be explored in a more curious and beautiful way. The large format, the two-color printing, the two ribbon bookmarks, and the colored endpapers also make the book a visual event.