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

by David Baron

Book Overview

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631490168
• ISBN13: 9781631490163
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"