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

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

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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, David Baron

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Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing

Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award

An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year

Finalist for the Colorado Book...

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Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing

Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award

An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year

Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)

Booklist Editors' Choice (Science & Technology)

Featuring a new afterword priming readers for the total solar eclipse of 2024, this essential (BBC) account brilliantly captures the celestial and human drama of eclipses.

With this suspenseful narrative history (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientistsamong them, planet hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and ambitious young inventor Thomas Edisonwho raced to Wyoming and Colorado in the summer of 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, to observe the first great American eclipse. Thrillingly recreating the fierce jockeying of these nineteenth-century astronomers, Baron draws on years of exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history (Lee Billings, Scientific American), when the fate of American science still hung precariously in the balance. Now updated with an afterword that unites eclipses and eclipse-chasers past and presentrevisiting the total solar eclipse of 2017 and looking forward to that of 2024American Eclipse reveals the enduring power of these ethereal events to bring people together across space and time.

Autoren-Porträt von David Baron

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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Autor: David Baron
2017, 368 Seiten, Englisch
Verlag: Liveright
ISBN-10: 1631490176
ISBN-13: 9781631490170
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2017

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