| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Prologue: dark amid the blaze of noon -- Peterborough 30 June 1954 -- Waiting for Godot -- Preparation -- Cornwall: 11 August 1999 -- June 21st is Midwinter's Day -- 'Who's arranged this eclipse?' -- Earthshine in the Sahara: Libya 2006 -- The most remote eclipses -- Atlantic adventure -- Back to the future -- Epilogue: everything under the sun is in tune |
| Summary |
In August 2017, 100 million will gather across the USA to watch a total solar eclipse. This book, written by the widely read popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this most beautiful natural phenomenon, taking the reader to a war zone in the Western Sahara, to the South Pacific, and to the African bush |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Total solar eclipses.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Total solar eclipses
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192514868 |
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0192514865 |
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