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27%OFFRichard Cohen - Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life - 9781416526124 - V9781416526124
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Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life

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Description for Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life Paperback. Adazzling tour d'horizonof mankind's enduring fascination with, and reliance upon, the extraordinary star at the centre of our solar system. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16pp plates. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 196 x 40. Weight in Grams: 510.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781416526124
SKU
V9781416526124
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About Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen is the former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton and the author of Chasing the Sun, By the Sword, and How To Write Like Tolstoy. Works he has edited have gone on to win the Pulitzer, Booker and Whitbread/Costa prizes, and twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. For more than 35 years he has written, edited, and lectured on numerous subjects around the ... Read more

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