Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
Frank Close$22.09
$25.99
On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon.
The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and introduces us to eclipse chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervor to some of the most inaccessible places on the globe. The book also includes the author's quest to solve a 3000-year-old mystery: how did
the moon move backward during a total solar eclipse, as claimed in the Book of Joshua? Eclipse is also the story of how a teacher inspired the author, aged eight, to pursue a career in science and a love affair with eclipses that has taken him to a war zone in the Western Sahara, the South Pacific, and the African bush. The tale comes full circle with another eight-year old boy - the
author's grandson - at the 2017 great American eclipse. Readers of all ages will be drawn to this inspirational chronicle of the mesmerizing experience of total solar eclipse.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2017
ISBN: 9780198795490
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/06/2017
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017
Booklist 04/15/2017 pg. 4
Shelf Awareness 05/19/2017
Choice 11/01/2017
The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and introduces us to eclipse chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervor to some of the most inaccessible places on the globe. The book also includes the author's quest to solve a 3000-year-old mystery: how did
the moon move backward during a total solar eclipse, as claimed in the Book of Joshua? Eclipse is also the story of how a teacher inspired the author, aged eight, to pursue a career in science and a love affair with eclipses that has taken him to a war zone in the Western Sahara, the South Pacific, and the African bush. The tale comes full circle with another eight-year old boy - the
author's grandson - at the 2017 great American eclipse. Readers of all ages will be drawn to this inspirational chronicle of the mesmerizing experience of total solar eclipse.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2017
ISBN: 9780198795490
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/06/2017
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017
Booklist 04/15/2017 pg. 4
Shelf Awareness 05/19/2017
Choice 11/01/2017