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"An amazing tour de force, a grand history, and an irresistable account of an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target."--Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind" "A quite extraordinary book, which I absolutely loved. It's a fabulously provoking history of discoveries, dreams, and delusions. I shall bask in its shimmering digressions, crazy cross-references, and dizzy overviews for many moons."--Richard Holmes, author of "The Age of Wonder" "Remarkably comprehensive and engrossing . . . Apollo, Ra, Inti or Huitzilopochtli--all would rock with delight at Cohen's sweeping endeavor."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review) "A firework of a book . . . sprinkled throughout with such glittery delights.""--The Wall Street Journal" " " "On every single page there is something utterly fascinating."--Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials "[Full of] playfulness and jam-packed lyricism.""--The Boston Globe" Advance praise for "Chasing the Sun " ""Chasing the Sun" is both a grand history of civilization and an irresistible account of an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target. Richard Cohen collects fascinating stories with the exuberance and erudition of a Victorian explorer filling a curio cabinet with rare specimens. This is an amazing tour de force."--Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind" ""Chasing the Sun" is quite an extraordinary book, which I absolutely loved. I found it impossible to read in a few sittings, but sort of sat around regularly sunbathing in its information afterglow. It's a dazzling solar encyclopedia but also a fabulously provoking history of discoveries, dreams, and delusions. I shall bask in its shimmering digressions, crazy cross-references, and dizzy overviews for many moons."--Richard Holmes, author of "The Age of Wonder" "From the Hardcover edition." Advance praise for "Chasing the Sun " ""Chasing the Sun" is both a grand history of civilization and an irresistible account of an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target. Richard Cohen collects fascinating stories with the exuberance and erudition of a Victorian explorer filling a curio cabinet with rare specimens. This is an amazing tour de force."--Sylvia Nasar, author of "A Beautiful Mind" ""Chasing the Sun" is quite an extraordinary book, which I absolutely loved. I found it impossible to read in a few sittings, but sort of sat around regularly sunbathing in its information afterglow. It's a dazzling solar encyclopedia but also a fabulously provoking history of discoveries, dreams, and delusions. I shall bask in its shimmering digressions, crazy cross-references, and dizzy overviews for many moons."--Richard Holmes, author of
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The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUNis a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen, applying the same mix of wide-ranging reference and intimate detail that won outstanding reviews for By the Sword, travels from the ancient Greek astronomers to modern-day solar scientists, from Stonehenge to Antarctica (site of the solar eclipse of 2003, when penguins were said to sing), Mexico's Aztecs to the Norwegian city of Tromso, where for two months of the year there is no Sun at all. He introduces us to the crucial 'sunspot cycle' in modern economics, the religious dances of Indian tribesmen, the histories of sundials and calendars, the plight of migrating birds, the latest theories of global warming, and Galileo recording his discoveries in code, for fear of persecution. And throughout, there is the rich Sun literature -- from the writings of Homer through Dante and Nietzsche to Keats, Shelley and beyond. Blindingly impressive and hugely readable, this is a tour de force of narrative non-fiction.

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  • VerlagSimon & Schuster
  • Erscheinungsdatum2011
  • ISBN 10 1416526129
  • ISBN 13 9781416526124
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  • Anzahl der Seiten720
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