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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R545
Discovery Miles 5 450
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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.
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