Articles liés à American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch...

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

Baron, David

 
9781631490163: American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1631490168 ISBN 13 : 9781631490163
Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017

Synopsis

"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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

David Baron, an award-winning journalist, 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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1631490168
ISBN 13 
9781631490163
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible