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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,Used
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Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingWinner of the AIP Science Communication AwardAn Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)A St. Louis PostDispatch Best Book of the YearFinalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)Booklist Editors Choice (Science & Technology)This suspenseful narrative history (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) brings to life the momentous eclipse that enthralled a nation and thrust American science onto the world stage.On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moons shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial eventa total solar eclipseoffered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar systems 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, recreates 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 midafternoon. 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), awardwinning writer David Baron brings to threedimensional life these competitorsthe planethunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and the ambitious young inventor Thomas Edisonto thrillingly recreate the fierce jockeying of nineteenthcentury 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 Americas 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. 8 pages of photographs; 65 illustrations; 1 map
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