TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baron,David
TI  - American eclipse: a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world 
SN  - 9781324094692
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation
KW  - Science
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Eclipses
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1865-1918
N2  - In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, bringing to life the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. With memorable accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, David Baron's page-turning drama refracts nineteenth-century science through the mythologized age of the Wild West, revealing a history no less fierce and fantastical
ER  -