Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon by Close, Frank
Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon by Close, Frank

Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon

On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched...
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Author: Frank Close
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Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon by Close, Frank

Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon

$54.33
Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon by Close, Frank

Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon

$54.33
Author: Frank Close
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and introduces us to eclipse chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervor to some of the most inaccessible places on the globe. The book also includes the author's quest to solve a 3000-year-old mystery: how did the moon move backward during a total solar eclipse, as claimed in the Book of Joshua?

Eclipse is also the story of how a teacher inspired the author, aged eight, to pursue a career in science and a love affair with eclipses that has taken him to a war zone in the Western Sahara, the South Pacific, and the African bush. The tale comes full circle with another eight-year old boy - the author's grandson - at the 2017 great American eclipse. Readers of all ages will be drawn to this inspirational chronicle of the mesmerizing experience of total solar eclipse.

Author: Frank Close
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2017
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780198795490


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/06/2017
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017
Booklist 04/15/2017 pg. 4
Shelf Awareness 05/19/2017
Choice 11/01/2017

About the Author

Frank Close is an eminent research theoretical physicist in nuclear and particle physics. Currently Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College, he was formerly the Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He served as Chair of the UK Space Exploration Working Group 2007 which culminated with Tim Peake's launch to the ISS. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Lucifer's Legacy (OUP, 2000), and was the winner of the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for his "outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics." His other books include The Cosmic Onion (1983), The Particle Explosion (1987), End (1988), Too Hot to Handle (1991), and The Particle Odyssey (OUP, 2002). In 2013 Professor Close was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science.



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