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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.

Baron, David, 1964- (Author). Yen, Jonathan. (Added Author).

Summary:

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another-an adventuresome female astronomer-fought to prove that science was not 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681685786
ISBN: 1681685787
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 39 min.)) : digital
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [United States]: HighBridge, 2017.
Distributor: Made available through hoopla.

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	Digital content provided by hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Jonathan Yen.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.