American Eclipse by David Baron | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: American Eclipse Author: David Baron Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books Genres: History, American Summary: 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. Contact: [email protected]

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