Acclaimed science journalist David Baron, long fascinated by eclipses, re-creates this 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 those scant three minutes when the blue sky blackened and stars appeared in mid-afternoon. 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. On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) brings to life the momentous eclipse that enthralled a nation and thrust American science onto the world stage. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Yearįinalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)īooklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology) Winner of the AIP Science Communication AwardĪn Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)Ī St. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing He has seen six total solar eclipses so far.Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Baron is the author of the 2017 book American Eclipse.
He is currently a scholar in residence at the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism.
duPont Award from Columbia University, the National Academies Communications Award, and, on three occasions, the annual journalism prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His work has also appeared in publications like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Daily Beast.īaron has won a number of journalism awards, including the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Alfred I. He has been a science reporter for NPR, WBUR, and PRI's The World. He's spent the last 20 years chasing them across the globe-all for a few minutes of joy, wonder and awe.ĭavid Baron is a journalist, author, and avid umbraphile who has spent most of his career in public radio. The moment David Baron saw his first total solar eclipse in 1998, he was hooked. Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Where Joy Hides.
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