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Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon (Hardcover)
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Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon (Hardcover)
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List price R472
Loot Price R428
Discovery Miles 4 280
You Save R44 (9%)
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On 21 August 2017, over 100 million people will gather in a narrow
belt across the USA to witness the most watched total solar eclipse
in history. Eclipse - Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon,
written by the widely read popular science author Frank Close,
describes the spellbinding allure of this most beautiful natural
phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their
role in history, literature and myth, and focuses on eclipse
chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervour to some of the most
inaccessible places on the globe to be present at the moment of
totality. The book includes the author's quest to solve a 3000
years old mystery: how did the moon move backwards during a total
solar eclipse, as claimed in the Book of Joshua? It is an
inspirational tale: how a teacher and an eclipse inspired the
author, aged eight, to a life in science, and a love affair with
eclipses, which takes him to a war zone in the Western Sahara, to
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.
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