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

Baron, David

ISBN 10: 1631494554 / ISBN 13: 9781631494550

Verlag: Liveright, 2018

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1631494554-11-17896884

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden and American Eclipse. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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Titel: American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to ...
Verlag: Liveright
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New