{"product_id":"9781324094692","title":"American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing\u003cbr\u003e  Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award\u003cbr\u003e  An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)\u003cbr\u003e  A \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e  Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e Editors’ Choice (Science \u0026amp; Technology)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing a new afterword priming readers for the total solar eclipse of 2024, this “essential” (BBC) account brilliantly captures the celestial and human drama of eclipses.\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWith this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s \u003cem\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/em\u003e), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists—among them, planet hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison—who raced to Wyoming and Colorado in the summer of 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, to observe the first great American eclipse. Thrillingly recreating the fierce jockeying of these nineteenth-century astronomers, Baron draws on years of “exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history” (Lee Billings, \u003cem\u003eScientific American\u003c\/em\u003e), when the fate of American science still hung precariously in the balance. Now updated with an afterword that unites eclipses and eclipse-chasers past and present—revisiting the total solar eclipse of 2017 and looking forward to that of 2024—\u003cem\u003eAmerican Eclipse\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the enduring power of these ethereal events to bring people together across space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917929431280,"sku":"9781324094692","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/615704635.jpg?v=1760118860","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324094692","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}