Chasing The Sun: The Epic Story Of The Star That Gives Us Life,Used

Chasing The Sun: The Epic Story Of The Star That Gives Us Life,Used

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In the grand tradition of the scholaradventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life. Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from locations in eighteen different countries. As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywherein mythology, language, religion, politics, sciences, art, literature, and medicine, even in the oceans depths. For some ancient worshippers, our star was a man abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the Suns imagery, with the cross becoming an emblem of the star and its rays, and the halo a variation of that. Einstein helped replicate the Suns power to create the atomic bomb, while Richard Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of romantic love. In this splendidly illustrated volume packed with captivating facts, extraordinary myths, and surprising anecdotes, Cohen not only explains the star that so inspires us, but shows how multifacted our relationship with it has beenand continues to be.

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