American Eclipse
A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
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Letto da:
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Jonathan Yen
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David Baron
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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 19th-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.
©2017 David Baron (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksRecensioni della critica
"With verbal aplomb and a jaunty pace, Jonathan Yen deftly narrates this tale of scientific adventure.... Yen keeps listeners engaged by embracing the momentum of discovery, driving the plot, and adding color through voices and accents." (AudioFile)