SIGNED American Eclipse: a Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
by Baron, David
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1631490168
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490163
- Seller
-
Camarillo, California, United States
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About This Item
Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/Collectible
Book appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.
Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.
Signed by the author, David Baron, on title page.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Casa Pacifica (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150
- Title
- SIGNED American Eclipse: a Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
- Author
- Baron, David
- Format/Binding
- As New
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1631490168
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490163
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 352
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Science; Non Fiction;
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- Tight
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