American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
Language: English
Published by Liveright, 2017
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- Title
- American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
- Author
- Baron, David
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1631490168
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490163
- Item weight
- 24 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
"David Baron gives a compelling account of this phenomenon...American Eclipse is an incredibly well-written work of non-fiction. It is clearly the result of considerable research and careful thought. And it tells a great story." Book of the Month, BBC Sky at Night Magazine
In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three ruthless and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another an adventurous female astronomer fought to prove that science was not an anathema to femininity. And a young, megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.
David Baron brings to three-dimensional life these three competitors James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell and Thomas Edison and thrillingly re-creates the fierce jockeying of nineteenth-century American astronomy. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before. A 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.
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