American eclipse: a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
Science and technology, United States history
Human-narrated audio
Summary
On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's most enduring… riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains. An epic tale of ambition, failure, and glory in a narrative that reveals as much about the historical trajectory of a striving young nation as it does about the eclipse. Some violence