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David Baron

Biography

David Baron

David Baron, an award-winning journalist, is a former science correspondent for NPR and former science editor for the public radio program "The World." An incurable umbraphile whose passion for chasing eclipses began in 1998, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

David Baron

Books by David Baron

by David Baron - History, Nonfiction, Science

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 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. In vibrant historical detail, AMERICAN ECLIPSE animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late 19th-century American astronomy, bringing to life the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure.