American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by Baron, David
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by Baron, David

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow...
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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by Baron, David

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

$36.13
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by Baron, David

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

$36.13
Author: David Baron
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains. Acclaimed science journalist David Baron, long fascinated by eclipses, re-creates this epic tale of ambition, failure, and glory in a narrative that reveals as much about the historical trajectory of a striving young nation as it does about those scant three minutes when the blue sky blackened and stars appeared in mid-afternoon.

Lauded as a "sweeping, compelling" (Wall Street Journal) work of science history, American Eclipse tells the story of the three tenacious and brilliant scientists who raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe the rare event. Dedicating years of "exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history" (Scientific American), award-winning writer David Baron brings to three-dimensional life these competitors--the planet-hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and the ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison--to thrillingly re-create the fierce jockeying of nineteenth-century American astronomy. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the Wild West comes alive as never before. An "enthralling" (Daniel Kevles) and magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.

Author: David Baron
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/12/2018
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781631494550

About the Author
Baron, David: - David Baron, an award-winning journalist and author of The Beast in the Garden, is a former science correspondent for NPR and former science editor for the public radio program The World. An incurable umbraphile whose passion for chasing eclipses began in 1998, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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