American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

This epic story of a nineteenth-century celestial drama will enthrall readers, as the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years plunges America into darkness.
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 …