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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 [Audiobook]
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David Baron, Jonathan Yen (Narrator), "American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World"
ASIN: B072LK8WB7, ISBN: 1681685779 | 2017 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:38:00 | 245 MB
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.