
American Eclipse
A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Yen
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By:
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David Baron
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.
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Critic reviews
"With verbal aplomb and a jaunty pace, Jonathan Yen deftly narrates this tale of scientific adventure.... Yen keeps listeners engaged by embracing the momentum of discovery, driving the plot, and adding color through voices and accents." (AudioFile)
Nature, Scientific Discovery, Equality, & Eclipse
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The history of various inventors. I liked the description of the women and the part that placed in history.
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wonderful tale
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Good, but dated to this year's eclipse.
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Eclispse brought to life!
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Just OK.
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Great prep for eclipse viewing
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What would have made American Eclipse better?
A reader who simply read the book, rather than someone who dramatized every word, so much so that I couldn't stand to listen to it. Just tell the tale!!What did you like best about this story?
Great idea for a book. Hope to read it some time.What didn’t you like about Jonathan Yen’s performance?
Too dramatic and inflected. Just read the thing!! The inflections were so distracting I couldn't hear the story, and avoided it.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Great book, good idea for a book.Don't listen to Jonathan Yen!
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Disorganized and irrelevant
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